Time flies, and the hottest day of the year in August is fast approaching......

Somewhere in the middle of Qingyuan Mansion, here is far away from the rich land bordering Liuzhou Mansion in the eastern part of Qingyuan Mansion in terms of geographical environment, and because of the terrain, the land transportation here is extremely inconvenient, the population is not only sparse and also mostly for the gathering point of ethnic minorities, but this place is just the official road connecting Nandan, and the terrain is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, so after so many years of construction and development, a large village of ethnic minorities has gradually formed here, since the emergence of the Tusi Bondage System, This Dazhai has been subject to the canonization and management of the Northern Dynasty, although the official is not big, but in this acre of three points of land is at least the same as the emperor of the soil, and has also become a military important place in the west of Qingyuan Mansion in Guangxi.

"Touren!! Headman!! ”

On this day, the toast head who was guarding here had just gotten up early (eating breakfast) when he heard a loud shouting from far and near from outside his compound...... Although he has a serious official position, ethnic minority residents are still accustomed to calling this old man the leader, which is a habit that has been cultivated since childhood......

"Shouting and screaming, what a system!!"

The old man scolded, so that the panting patrol had to stand in the yard to catch his breath first, although this Tusi inspector is completely the genes and lineage of ethnic minorities from the bloodline, but from the grandfather's generation, the family began to ask the Han private school teacher to teach themselves literacy and literature, from the clothing, but also began to get used to wearing the Han robe, and no longer the ethnic minority's own homespun clothes...... Even in terms of speech and demeanor, the official authority and demeanor of Han officials outside began to gradually appear.

"What's so alarming...... the old man asked unhurriedly when he saw that the patrolman's breath was a little smoother.

"Chief...... Twenty miles outside the fort, I found a flower skin ......"

"What ?!!"

This news made the atmosphere in the room suddenly tense, the old man slapped the table and shook the dishes and chopsticks on it, and an old woman in the room was so frightened that the things in her hands fell directly to the ground without holding them steady, adding a new kind of music to this "symphony......

"You read that right?! ……”

Ignoring the wine and rice on his hands, the old man pushed aside the table and chair that blocked him and went straight to the patrolman who reported the news, staring at the patrolman with wide eyes.

"That's right!! Dressed in a yellow and green dress, walking on the official road, it would be difficult to see if it weren't for the smoke and dust all over the ground...... There are a lot of people, at least more than three hundred people......"

The patrol was startled by the old man's expression, but he also knew that there was nothing to be afraid of at this time, if he was right, the leader would not punish him, and if he said it wrong, he would suffer bad luck.

"It's coming so fast......"

After receiving the definite news, the old man let the patrol go, and a few days ago received news from the river pool, saying that those flower skins drove the kind of sudden boat up the river, and conquered the river pool and the military forts along the way. The old man had not heard of these legendary flower skins that seemed to be divine soldiers descending from the sky, but he scoffed at such rumors; No matter how powerful the firearms are, it is difficult to attack the city, especially the artillery of the flower skin mentioned in various rumors and official newspapers, in the impression of the old man, the artillery is all that kind of heavy and clumsy thing, and it is nothing to defend the city, but if you want to travel on the potholed official road, it is simply a disaster, and those flower skins act fast, often they are here today and appear there tomorrow, are these flower skins all iron beaten people do not need to rest? ! Those heavy cannons are all conjurks and can be changed out of thin air?!

It's just that today, when the old man learned that the legendary flower skin appeared on his land, he finally understood the rumors before, no matter how many or little flower skins came, it has already shown that these flower skins do have a pair of scuds, and it has only been a few days since he took the river pond and Jincheng Town, and he has already appeared on his own land!!

"Ring the bell!!"

However, compared with the women who were a little panicked in the house, the old man was the head of the village after all, and others could mess up, but he must not panic......

To say that the old and young masters in the whole village are very fast, after all, this village is located in the choke point of traffic, and the annual collection of money to and from the caravan is enough to make many people red-eyed, since the beginning of the establishment of the village, there have been people from time to time to disturb, so that the people in the village can maintain enough training and a more vigilant mentality, if it is replaced by other villages or military forts, it is good to be able to consciously set up a swimming post outside five miles away to be able to see the enemy attack warning......

"Shhh...... These flower skins ...... Sure enough, there was a set of ......" Standing on the commanding heights and watching from afar, the old man gasped at what he saw.

The speed of the flower skins was not slow, and it didn't take long for the old man to see the outposts of the flower skins on the official road and on both sides, and it seemed that these flower skins had not yet gotten carried away after many victories, and they had not even sent the outposts to send them to their deaths.

And the mobile sentry placed outside the stockade also quickly encountered the outpost of the flower skin, but the battle was very fast, the outpost of the flower skin was mostly a group of three alternately advancing, and it was difficult to wipe out its outpost team in a small-scale ambush, and the firearm in the opponent's hand was sharp, and after the long bird gun in his hand, he did not hesitate to throw the gun and replace the short gun on his body, this short gun can be fired quickly in bursts, so that those who try to melee are extremely disadvantaged.

Even after being close, it is difficult for the people in the village to take advantage, because these flower skins are wearing a kind of short armor, although this short armor looks weird and more like the horse armor worn by the Han people, but the spear and knife have not been able to break the armor and hurt people, these flower skin outposts are also art masters who know how to use this armor on their bodies, either with a helmet or take the initiative to give the shoulder to the other party to cut and then stab with a dagger, unable to break the armor, so that the people of their own village are extremely disadvantaged.

Several teams with long and short firearms worked together to clean up the mobile posts set up by the stockade like a net, and the stockade that could not bear such heavy casualties had to withdraw from the official road under the removal of the Huapi people, so that the opponent's large army swaggered to a place about two hundred and fifty steps away from the stockade and stopped.

"Shhh...... Are all these cannons made of wood? ”

The condescending old man was easy to see clearly what the flower skins were doing not far away, when the flower skin team stopped more than two hundred steps away from the stockade, the flower skins did not delay much, the infantry directly put on a defensive position, and those who did not hold the bird gun flower skin was to catch up with the carriage behind and lined up in the middle, the old man's eyesight was not bad, and he could see at a glance that the flower skins were carrying something in the carriage, which was the legendary cannon.

Seeing this scene, the old man could hardly believe his eyes, because although the official road from the river pond to his village is quite spacious, it is definitely not that kind of smooth road, there are many potholes along the way, and ordinary ox carts and carriages are easy to sink into it to slow down, how do these flower skins overcome so many potholes on the road? !

Of course, the old man didn't know that there were two kinds of artillery used by the skins, one was a small cannon that could be directly decomposed to the camel of the horse, and the other was the artillery that needed to be pulled by cattle and horses, this kind of artillery was the twelve-centimeter caliber artillery that was in the limelight in the attack on Liuzhou City last year. A horse that can be dragged as long as it is not old, weak, sick or disabled, relieves a lot of pressure on the mountain village, which has always been very short of animal power.

Therefore, since the actual battle in Liuzhou City last year, this kind of artillery has defeated the front-loading rifled artillery of the same caliber, and has become one of the two types of combat artillery mainly equipped by the mountain village army and the garrison unit. And this artillery was finally named Thor XVII artillery, Thor is named after its cannon when firing a similar rumbling sound, the following seventeen is the official number, in order to distinguish the special purpose of twenty-five, thirty times the body diameter ratio of the same caliber artillery, but in the spoken language of the soldiers, this seventeen is usually omitted, because in everyone's mind, Thor equipment is large and extremely durable and easy to use, and the number of guns with special body diameter is not only small but also rarely appears on the battlefield. But as for why it is not called heavy artillery, the reason is simple, because there are artillery pieces of larger caliber and more powerful than it!

"Battalion commander!!" Just as the artillerymen were pushing the guns to the position and unloading boxes of shells from the other wagons to prepare for the fire, a sentinel came running in front. "Battalion commander, shouting from the stockade, why are we attacking them?! What else do you say this is the royal land of the Ming Dynasty, the patrol of the garrison is canonized, what kind of official, attacking the village is a rebellion or something, how can you reply? ? ”

If it was before, the battalion commander would definitely go to the front with great pride, and have such a war of words with the other party before the cannon fired, but today's awl is really not in this mood, although the Thor artillery has a good passing ability after reducing the load and designing the large wheel frame, but the bumps along the way are not less headaches for the artillery and infantry, especially when I think that I can't command the troops to attack east and south like other battalions, I always feel quite unhappy and uncomfortable. And the other party's shouting just pierced the sore spot in his heart...... If this old bastard didn't show that he was a staunch opposition and militant in intelligence, and there was a big tin mine not far behind your stockade, there was a big tin mine that the teacher said, so Lao Tzu didn't have to suffer so much to push the artillery to play with you?

Thinking of this, the battalion commander was angry, and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Tell that old guy that Lao Tzu beat him for nothing else, but he was in the wrong position!!" (To be continued.) )