A few miles of mountain roads, for Zhu Yuanzhang's army, who has been entrenched in Huanglong Mountain for many years, is just a blink of an eye.

The camp of the officers and soldiers soon appeared in front of everyone, and sure enough, as expected by Zhu Yuanzhang, after the officers and soldiers captured the No. 3 sub-village, they left half of their troops on the top of the mountain, and Du Wenhuan himself also personally went to the top of the No. 3 sub-village to make overall arrangements, and the officers and soldiers who stayed at the foot of the mountain were centered on the 200 people of the Shenji battalion, supplemented by 1,000 ordinary soldiers, stationed in the camp.

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly appeared next to the camp with 2,000 people, and the officers and soldiers were suddenly startled.

People's hearts are so wonderful, the officers and soldiers have obviously won a big victory, and their morale should be like a rainbow, but because half of the troops are divided, and the commander-in-chief Du Wenhuan is not present, they have no will to fight at all.

The officers and soldiers left behind in the mountain were commanded by Ma Rulong of the Shenji Battalion, and when he heard the scout's report that two thousand rogue bandits were coming, he didn't think about it, and ordered reflexively: "The bandits are coming, our army only has half of the strength, and it is not suitable to fight, so I ordered the whole army, guard the camp, and wait for the general soldiers of Du on the mountain to come down the mountain to help!" ”

After Ma Rulong gave this order, he tilted his head and thought about it, and added: "The thief army is very afraid of our Shenji battalion, pass on my order, the fire gun soldiers go up to the wall and arrow tower, if there are thieves approaching, they will enter to deter the shooting and delay the time." ”

His military order was immediately spread throughout the barracks by the heralds, and the officers and men immediately took action, climbed the wall of the camp, and a small number of firecrackers climbed the arrow tower, ready to attack. Only the Franc cannon was not moved, because the situation of defending the camp was not suitable for using the cannon. The reason is simple, the walls of the camp are made of wood, unlike the walls of the city, which are made of stones, and cannons can be erected on the walls of the walls, but not on the walls of the camps.

When Zhu Yuanzhang and two thousand thieves rushed to stand outside the camp of the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers had already completed the preparations for defense.

"It's a good soldier!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "It only took a very short time from the scouts passing back the news of our approach to the completion of the preparations for defense, and it is impossible to catch their loopholes." ”

"Hmm!" Xu Renjie nodded: "For this kind of well-trained army, attacking the camp is simply a dream. ”

"It's okay, we weren't attacking the camp in the first place!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "The officers and soldiers really did not dare to come out to meet the battle, but shrank in the camp, trying to defend until the officers and soldiers who went up the mountain came back to reinforce." ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the arrow tower in the camp opposite and said, "Therefore...... They will place the firecrackers on top of the turret. If our army attacks, the firecrackers of the officers and men will use the means of deterring fire to repel our troops. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly turned around and said loudly to the leaders behind him, as well as the soldiers who were standing closer and could hear his voice: "You are very afraid of firecrackers, are you?" ”

"This ......" Xu Renjie and Desperate Saburo lowered their heads, and a group of defeated soldiers who had just lost the battle also lowered their heads in shame.

"Don't be afraid! I'll tell you right now that there's nothing to be afraid of. Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the defeated army that had withdrawn from the No. 3 branch village, and said to a defeated soldier: "Can you lend me your wooden shield for use?" ”

"Of course...... Zhu Bugling wants to use it to ......" The soldier straightened up and said curiously: "But...... What are you doing with this? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, but did not explain. He took the wooden shield and looked at it carefully, it was a very ordinary wooden shield, its strength was about the same as a wooden pot lid, no iron-clad or even painted, it was extremely simple.

He took it in his hand, held it high, and said to the defeated soldiers around him, "The fire gun can penetrate this kind of shield, so you are scared, are you?" ”

"yes......"

"I'm sorry...... Brother Zhu, we're really useless...... Now that I think about it, I still feel scared ......."

Zhu Yuanzhang said loudly: "I'll take this shield with me now to let the other party's fire gun hit, let you see if the fire gun can hurt me half a hair." ”

"Wow!" The soldiers were in an uproar.

"No, Zhu Buggy!"

"Are you really going?"

"Dangerous!"

The soldiers shouted.

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored them, raised his shield, and walked step by step to the camp of officers and soldiers.

Wang Er, Xu Renjie, Desperate Saburo and other leaders were taken aback by his actions, and Ma Xiaotian, the captain of the guards, was even more frightened, and hurriedly led thirty-five henchmen and guards to surround Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Go back!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Don't come to stand in my way, I'll just go alone." ”

"This ......" Ma Xiaotian Khan said, "It's too dangerous, what use can you use in the past alone?" ”

"Don't ask me now! Just watch quietly! Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand.

Ma Xiaotian saw that there was no trace of hesitation or fear in Zhu Yuanzhang's firm eyes, so he had no choice but to retreat into the formation with thirty-five guards.

The two thousand thieves and soldiers all watched Zhu Yuanzhang walk out of the formation, walking alone towards the camp of the officers and soldiers alone, with one shield and one shield.

"What is Bugs Zhu going to do?"

"Do you want to ride a thousand?"

"Don't talk nonsense, that's Mr. Storyteller's nonsense, how can anyone really ride a thousand?"

The officers and soldiers in the camp were actually frightened, if the thieves came together, they would be more mentally prepared, but what does it mean to walk out alone like this, approaching with a shield? In fact...... In the first few years when the two armies were fighting, it was not uncommon for a person to be sent out to deliver the message, but the person sent to deliver the message would certainly not carry weapons or shields, and would have to raise his hands high to show that he had no intention of fighting. But the man sent by the thieves was holding a wooden shield in his hand, and his hands were not raised, and he had a "desperate" momentum on his body, which was not pretended.

The sentry on the wall wiped his sweat and shouted at Ma Rulong below: "General Ma, the big thing is not good, the thief soldiers have only sent one person to attack us!" ”

Ma Rulong had actually seen it a long time ago, and his palms were also sweaty, this situation was also the first time he had seen it as a general, and he was really a little confused. He had no choice but to adopt the most ordinary method of dealing with it, and ordered loudly: "The nearest arrow tower is ready for me, the archers and firecrackers are aimed at him, and when he enters the shooting range, shoot him to the ground, no matter what kind of demon moth he makes, shoot him to death." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was facing the arrow tower on the right side of the gate of the Officers and Soldiers. He walked forward step by step, the officers and soldiers and thieves all fell silent, and all the people on the battlefield focused their eyes on him.

There were a total of ten soldiers on the arrow tower, five of them were fire guns, five were archers, the archers pulled their bows and arrows, and the five fire guns squatted down, first aimed at Zhu Yuanzhang's position, and then put the handle of the bird gun against his shoulder, so as not to cause the muzzle to shake due to recoil when firing. After completing such preparations, the next thing is to wait for Zhu Yuanzhang to walk into the firing range.

Thousands of people just watched him approach...... A little closer, a little closer...... Ma Rulong silently estimated the distance in his heart, and now it seemed to be three hundred feet away, as long as he got a little closer...... My men can fire...... Hey? He stopped!

Ma Rulong was taken aback, because the position where Zhu Yuanzhang stopped and didn't leave was not far or close, almost exactly three hundred feet!

It's a pretty delicate position...... The maximum range of the Bird Gun is 300 feet! However, the so-called maximum range is not equal to the effective range, the real effective range of the firebolt is only 150 feet, within this distance, the firebolt can achieve eight shots out of ten, but if it exceeds this distance, the hit rate will drop significantly, at a distance of 300 feet, the hit rate is almost zero.

Ma Rulong's palms were sweaty again, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart: What does this guy mean? A man went out of battle and suddenly stopped when he reached the maximum range of the firecrackers, what was he going to do?

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke, he let go of his throat and shouted in the loudest voice: "Shenji Battalion, do you dare to hit me with a fire gun?" ”

Neurotic, who will fire at this distance? Waste bullets! Ma Rulong scolded in his heart.

But Ma Rulong's thoughts were still spinning in his stomach, but the soldiers on the arrow tower lit the fire rope almost at the same time.

The sound of the "silky" arquebus burning, and the sparks splashed......

", why did you ignite the fire?" Ma Rulong scolded: "It's impossible to hit this distance...... You idiots, how are you estimating distance? ”

As soon as he scolded this sentence, his heart chuckled and he understood what the problem was...... The key reason why the guns were lured by the enemy to open fire at the limit of the range was the lack of training of the Shenji Battalion!

You must know that people are creatures that do not have a strong ability to sense distance. It is very difficult to accurately judge how far away an object is from you with your eyes in the case of head-headedness, and it takes a long time of training and countless actual battles to acquire such an ability.

But...... Divine Machine Camp ...... In other words, the entire Ming Dynasty's firearms army was seriously lacking in training and actual combat experience. Because the court is poor! The treasury was empty, the military budget was tight, and even if the Shenji Battalion was an important unit of the Son of Heaven's pro-army and one of the three major battalions in the capital, there was not much gunpowder and bullets to be used for training. The main thing that the soldiers usually train a lot of is to walk in line and shoot with unloaded firearms...... Real live-fire training, very little.

Under such circumstances, the guns of the Shenji Battalion don't know enough about the firearms in their hands! For its effective range, the mastery of the maximum range is seriously insufficient.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang stood at a position of three hundred feet, and casually said a radical word, and the soldiers couldn't help it and lit the fire rope!

"Bang bang bang!"

Five light gunshots rang out, and the five firecrackers on the arrow tower fired bullets almost at the same time, and a puff of green smoke rose......

Two thousand thieves exclaimed at the same time......

"Brother Zhu, get out of the way!"

"The officers and soldiers fired!"

"Hide!"

In the noise, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even raise the shield in his hand, he just stood proudly, as if the fire gun on the opposite side had not been fired at him at all, and he didn't move.

After the gunfire started, the gunfire stopped, and the drum noise of the two armies stopped, Zhu Yuanzhang still stood for a long time, unharmed......