Down and down the mountain, the sound of mobilization drums echoed!

The officers and soldiers couldn't help but raise their heads, only to see that there were human heads coming out of various arrow towers and earthen forts on the mountain, and it seemed that these thieves were originally lying on the ground to rest, and when they heard the sound of drums, they came up. The movements of these thieves are very neat and not chaotic at all.

In the past, when the officers and soldiers attacked the bandits' stockade, as long as they lined up in formation, they could see the bandits on the mountain scurrying around, crowding each other, or there were many people piled up in one place, but no one could be seen in another place, and then they redistributed the defense points in a chaotic manner.

But Huanglong Cottage does not have this problem, where should every thief soldier go, they seem to have practiced many times, their movements are neat, and they are not chaotic.

In addition, when the bandits were suppressed in the past, before the officers and soldiers attacked the mountain, there would be some thieves who couldn't help but throw stones down, or shoot arrows down, but these unorganized and undisciplined actions were not seen at all in the Huanglong Cottage, and the thieves didn't even pull the bow, but just stood in their own positions and scanned the officers and soldiers under the mountain with cold eyes.

There was no noise, no invective, the whole Huanglong cottage was like a beast about to prey on wild horses, lurking quietly, only the echoing drums reminded the officers and soldiers that this village was a living thing, not a dead thing.

In front of the gate of the cottage, two bed ballistas were slowly introduced, which were inventions of the Northern Song Dynasty, all wooden, and the whole was rectangular, like a huge bow on a bed.

On the eve of the Tanyuan Alliance, the Khitan general Xiao Dalan was killed by the Song army's bed crossbow, this kind of crossbow can shoot giant arrows with thick arms, and the range is very long, it is said (note, just said) this thing can shoot 1,500 meters, of course, this data is very unscientific. In fact, it can only shoot a few hundred meters, and the accuracy is not good, want to shoot the human body is the same as the difficulty of hitting people with cannons, usually used to shoot horses, and the power drops greatly after shooting far, it can be blocked with a large iron shield, in the Ming Dynasty in fact, it has been a retired weapon, the government has no longer made bed crossbows, but used more powerful artillery.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the conditions to make artillery now, so he had to make two bed crossbows as large defensive equipment when guarding the cottage.

Although this thing was very backward, it still caused an uproar in the eyes of the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

"What's the name? The bandits actually have this thing? ”

"What kind of bandit is this?"

"How can any bandit do this?"

Du Wenhuan saw the officers and soldiers who were coaxing, a touch of impatience flashed in the corners of his eyes, and he kicked the adjutant general next to him: "Tell them to shut up, the power and range of that broken crossbow are lower than our artillery, I'm afraid of a fart!" Pass the general's order, and those who shout again will fight fifty. ”

In fact, it was forbidden for soldiers to talk and shout privately in the military formation, but it is difficult to implement this military order reliably. Therefore, Du Wenhuan can only use this military order to scare people, and it is impossible to really implement it.

Ma Rulong ran over from the side: "General Du, it's time to give the order to attack the mountain, right?" Let my god machine camp! ”

"Nope! Hold your horses! Du Wenhuan shook his head: "Start the cannon first, don't rush to move the gunners...... After yesterday's temptation, the thieves' fear of the soldiers has greatly decreased, try to shake them with cannons. ”

"Yes!"

The sound of war drums sounded, and the military formation of the officers and men began to move forward slowly, just as in the attack on the No. 3 sub-village, the officers and men first set up the Franc machine gun at the foot of the mountain, and the position of the cannon was not far away, but it was not close, and it was just outside the range of the thief's arrow tower.

After setting up the cannon, the officers and men did not rush to fire, but first began to move the shield soldiers, and under the protection of the shield array, the archers of the brigade shrank behind the shield soldiers and slowly advanced towards the path up the mountain.

At this time, on the top of the Huanglong Cottage, Zhu Yuanzhang stood under a protruding cliff, scanning the situation under the mountain, and there was no expression on his face. Wang Er, Xu Renjie, Desperate Saburo, Ying Shanhong, Ma Xiaotian and other leaders surrounded him, only Miao Mei, Poodle and a few other people who were in charge of guarding the No. 1 and No. 2 sub-villages were not there, and the others were present.

The ordinary villagers in the cottage were actually worried about the outcome of this battle, so they hid in higher places, sticking their heads out of the gaps in the grass and stones to watch the battle below.

"The officers and soldiers are going to start attacking the mountain!" Xu Renjie pinched a handful of sweat: "Brother Zhu, don't you give any orders?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and did not speak. How to resist the attack of officers and soldiers has been trained many times in the past few years, and as long as there are no major changes, he does not need to give any orders at all. With only training in peacetime, soldiers should know what to do. At such times, all the commander-in-chief has to do is to dispatch troops, and there is no need to command every soldier to be meticulous about what to do.

"Aim!"

The artillerymen below the mountain were rapidly adjusting the inclination of the cannon, and at this time, down the hill, everyone's eyes were focused on the only Franc cannon.

"Ignition!"

The arquebus began to burn, and after a few breaths, there was a loud "boom", and the roar of the Fran cannon opened the prelude to the siege of the mountain.

As soon as the cannon sounded, all the thieves on the mountain were frightened, but after a while, the soldiers regained their bodies, and the ten captains in the arrow towers shouted: "Don't be afraid...... This thing is not going to work! ”

"Don't be afraid! It doesn't hit anyone! ”

The nearest arrow towers from the foot of the mountain, all of them are veterans who guarded the No. 3 branch village last time, they have received a baptism of firearms, although the last time they were completely collapsed by firearms, but after Zhu Yuanzhang's performance yesterday, they also have full mental preparations, and at the same time as the cannon sounded, they did not hide in embarrassment like the last time, but roared: "Can't hit me!" You can't hit me! ”

This is the self-hypnosis of the brave!

In later generations, there was a thing called the Boxer Rebellion, and he used a similar method to hypnotize himself: "Divine power protects the body, invulnerable!" "Although this hypnosis is morbid, it is undeniable that it is a way for the weak to fight the strong! If such hypnosis is not carried out, the weak will definitely lose to the strong, but after hypnosis, the weak have the courage to fight the strong.

Flesh and blood can't stop cannonballs, so they will be afraid, but as long as you hypnotize yourself and decide from the bottom of your heart that the cannon can't hit you, then no matter how powerful it is, you don't need to worry.

"Peng!" The first shell missed, and instead of hitting the tower, it slashed across the right side of the tower and hit the rocks, creating a huge crater with many pieces of rubble ejecting from the side.

The first cannon is usually crooked, because the cannon has to go through several consecutive shots and constantly adjust the inclination angle to accurately hit the target......

But this crooked first shot seems to prove the curse of "you can't hit me"!

The thieves on the mountain cheered "in an uproar": "Hahaha! Sure enough, it didn't hit! ”

"Can't hit me!"

"Cannons don't work!"

"Don't be afraid of it!"

"Hahahaha!"

In the midst of this strange cry, the first wave of the offensive of the officers and soldiers began, just like the attack on the third sub-village, the shield soldiers stepped on the mountain road and began to advance.

Without the orders of Zhu Yuanzhang and Desperate Saburo on the top of the mountain, the thieves in the arrow tower threw stones at them. The faster the thieves attacked, the smaller the stones they moved, so the first wave of falling rocks was relatively small, and the officers and soldiers held iron shields on their shoulders to meet this wave of falling rocks with the strength of their whole bodies.

I only heard the sound of "ping-pong" on the mountain road, and after hitting the iron shield, small stones jumped to the side, and large stones pushed the officers and soldiers holding the shield to the ground. The officers and men in the back row hurriedly resisted the fallen shield soldiers in the front row......

Then came the bigger stones...... More than 100 catties of boulders, carrying the increased weight of rolling down from a height, smashed down fiercely, even if the boulder of this weight is against the shield on the shoulder, it cannot be stopped, the result of the hard block is that the shoulder bone is smashed to pieces, the front row of shields is in chaos, several officers and soldiers fell to the ground, bleeding from the mouth and nose, and they could not live.

If it is an inferior soldier with poor morale and will, this wave of stones will definitely scare away a few timid officers and soldiers, and maybe even make the entire mountain attack force retreat in fright. But Du Wenhuan led this army to be an elite soldier, and a small loss was not enough to defeat them.

The moment the shield soldier fell, the archers hiding behind the shield pulled out the big bow in their hands and shot arrows at the arrow tower that was relatively close, and they didn't care whether the arrow tower had entered the shooting range, and even didn't care whether they could shoot people, so they launched the arrow first to suppress the thief soldiers, which was the most important thing.

Half of this wave of arrow rain fell halfway, and the other half flew to several arrow towers and earthen forts near the foot of the mountain, most of which were blocked by wooden walls and earthen forts, and a few arrows flew and fell behind the arrow towers and earthen forts, but they also lost their power, and did not cause much trouble to the thieves, only delaying the thieves' stone-throwing movements for a few breaths.

"Keep smashing!" The ten-man in the arrow tower shouted.

"Boom!" The second artillery of the officers and soldiers rang out again.

The fine-tuned second cannon was much higher than the first, and the cannonball hit the side wall of the arrow tower, and the wooden arrow tower made a tooth-aching creak and splinters of wood splintered under the great force of the large iron ball. The eleven soldiers in the arrow tower showed frightened expressions, but only a moment later, they roared again: "Only hit the arrow tower, no one is hit, you can't die!" Hahaha! We can't die! ”

Another wave of stones flew out of their hands and smashed down violently on the mountain road, and the shield wall that had been revitalized by the officers and soldiers was once again smashed by the stones, and then another wave of arrows flew up and returned fierce fire towards the arrow tower.