The officers and men under the hill began to retreat, and another wave of feints was repulsed.

"The officers and soldiers have temporarily retreated, quickly replenish supplies!" Without waiting for Xu Renjie and Desperate Saburo to give an order, the small leaders of the various defensive positions on the top of the mountain took the lead in shouting, and the shouts kept echoing on the mountain.

"The No. 3 arrow tower on the left mountainside, the arrows are exhausted, please send some arrows to the brothers on the mountain quickly......"

"The No. 4 Arrow Tower on the left mountainside, you need to ...... stones"

"No. 3 Arrow Tower on the right mountainside, a brother was injured by the arrows of officers and soldiers, please let him temporarily return to the stockade to bandage ......"

"Don't move the people on the left and right of the No. 1 Arrow Tower...... Continue to monitor the officers and soldiers under the mountain...... Don't give them a chance to open up a new path up the mountain......"

"Send us some buckets of water...... Die of thirst......"

"I'm hungry, do you have bread?"

People began to run around in various defensive positions, and the soldiers followed the pre-trained steps and carried out the homework that had to be done during the truce. Bandage the lightly wounded, evacuate the seriously wounded, resupply supplies, food and water, or the next battle will start with a grumbling stomach.

"Do you want to exchange this group of brothers back? Let the energetic soldiers go up? Desperate Saburo asked Xu Renjie.

"Uh...... I want to think about whether Zhu Bugle will update the new force in this situation. Xu Renjie picked his head, and after about a few breaths, he patted his head and said with a smile: "Don't change ...... The enemy only made two or three feints, and their physical exertion was not great, but on the contrary, the officers and men were unable to move, and their morale was very high. ”

"Well, that's what I thought, too!" Desperate Saburo and Xu Renjie looked at each other and smiled, and then clapped each other's hands: "Haha!" Great minds think alike. ”

After resting for a while, the soldiers' physical strength returned to a better state, and Xu Renjie patted the desperate Sanlang: "Get ready, the officers and soldiers are coming again." ”

"Well, our soldiers have regained their strength, and in the same way, the officers and soldiers have also recovered!" Desperately Saburo understood, the two walked to the side of the mountain together and looked down the mountain.

Sure enough, the officers and soldiers under the mountain also began to act.

"Huh? This time the movement of the officers and soldiers was a little different. Desperately Saburo pointed to the flags in the camp of officers and soldiers and said, "Look, the colorful flags representing the Shenji Battalion are starting to come towards us." ”

The uniqueness of the Shenji Battalion makes it very conspicuous in the overlapping military formations, although Xu Renjie and Desperate Saburo's vision is often blocked by cliffs and trees, but they can still judge the location of the Shenji Battalion at any time.

"Do we want to do anything special to prepare?" Desperate Saburo frowned: "I heard that the Shenji Battalion is all using firearms against the enemy, which is very terrifying...... I don't know if you have any good ways to deal with firearms? ”

"With only two hundred divine machine battalions, even if every soldier is an elite soldier, it is impossible to kill our mountain." Xu Renjie snorted twice: "I'm not afraid of any magic machine battalion and firearms." ”

In fact, whether it is Xu Renjie or Desperate Saburo, and even all the leaders except Zhu Yuanzhang, they have never seen the combat methods of the Shenji Battalion, they have never heard the roar of cannons, nor have they seen the salvo of firearms, they have no way of imagining how firearms are used on the battlefield, so it is indeed a bit difficult for them to come up with a countermeasure. Xu Renjie's surname is more exaggerated, and there is no way to deal with the shame of saying it, so he pretended to have a nonchalant expression and cheered himself up.

I saw that the Shenji Battalion had walked to the bottom of the mountain and stopped advancing, and they did not set foot on the mountain road up the mountain, but stopped at a long distance and began to drive a huge black iron pipe. This is a thousand-pound franc cannon, of course, although it is called "thousand-pound", the actual weight is only about 500 pounds. It was not easy for this heavy thing to move into the mountains, and I don't know how much manpower it took along the way to cross the treacherous mountains and rivers and cross countless ravines.

The artillerymen of the Shenji battalion pointed the muzzle of the Franc cannon to the mountain, and then began to fix the gun body, because the cannon of this era belongs to the ignition firing method, the tail of the cannon will have an impact similar to the explosion when the cannon is fired, so the recoil of the Franc cannon is extremely large, if it is not fixed well, the gun body will jump up after the cannon is fired, and it will fall to the side, if you are lucky, if you are unlucky, the soldiers of the entire artillery group will be killed by it. So before each use, the artillerymen had to carefully fix its bracket.

After setting up the stands, the officers and men lined up five sub-guns side by side, the so-called sub-guns, which were already filled with shells and explosives, which were used to increase the firing speed of the Franc cannon.

If you re-clean the chamber and load the ammunition for each shot, it will take a long time and cannot bring heavy casualties to the enemy in the shortest time, so the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty invented the sub-gun and put the time of loading ammunition in the stage of pre-war preparation. After firing the Franc cannon once, the soldiers took out the gun in the chamber and replaced it with a new one, so that they could fire continuously.

Of course, there is also a disadvantage of this, that is, there will be a subtle gap between the gun and the barrel, which will disperse the power of some gunpowder at the moment of firing the cannon, so that the kinetic energy of the cannonball will be reduced...... Therefore, the cannon with the sub-system was used, and the firing range was smaller than that of the cannon without the sub-system.

In the long-distance bombardment of artillery against artillery, the loss of firing range is a big problem, which will cause very serious consequences, but it is impossible for bandits to have artillery, so the Shenji battalion does not need to pay attention to maximizing the firing range.

Seeing the officers and soldiers preparing the cannons in a hurry, Saburo was a little panicked: "Generalissimo, have you seen it?" Officers and soldiers fiddling with artillery...... In the next wave of attacks, they will definitely use artillery...... I heard that thing is very powerful, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know what kind of powerful method it is? ”

"It shouldn't be much better." Xu Renjie comforted casually: "After all, it's a dead thing, we living people are still afraid of dead things?" In the past few years, I've played with trebuchets, crossbows, and other things, and I guess the cannon is not much different from these things, so I don't need to take it seriously. ”

While the two were chatting, the officers and soldiers had already adjusted their artillery, and then the siege troops began to move forward. Walking in the front is still the shield soldiers, and unlike the previous time, the back of the shield is no longer followed by the archers, but follows the two hundred divine machine battalions. These brightly armored clothes, and the weapons they carry in their hands are also very strange, all of them are long black iron pipes.

"That's the firebolt, right?" Desperately Saburo said.

"Well, it's called a bird's beak to be exact." Xu Renjie smiled: "I haven't seen it before...... But I've read "Wu Bei Zhi", which is about the bird's gun: the back hand does not give up, and the ignition does not move, so there are ** in the ten rounds, that is, the birds are in the forest, and they can be shot down, because it is named. ”

"Isn't that amazing?" Desperate Saburo is a little scared, he is the most fearful of the strength of the officers and soldiers among all the leaders of the cottage, and the other leaders are more or less "ignorant and fearless".

"Don't be afraid, I don't think that thing is much more powerful than a bow and arrow." Xu Renjie said seriously: "As long as our soldiers hide on the cliff or arrow tower, the bird's beak will not be able to hit our people." ”

At this time, the drums of the officers and soldiers had already begun to beat in the military formation, and the sound of the drums meant that a new wave of mountain attack battles was about to begin.

Desperately Saburo waved the command flag: "Attention...... This time, the officers and soldiers are going to move in earnest, everyone cheer me up! ”

"Yes!"

The archers on the arrow towers everywhere all drew their bows. Soldiers who were not assigned bows and arrows picked up the stones, and a few carried the rolling logs...... Due to good training and high morale, the soldiers on the cottage showed a strong fighting spirit almost instantly, and a momentum of defending the cottage enveloped the whole mountain.

"We're not going to lose!"

"We will definitely defeat the enemy!"

"We are the strongest!"

The soldiers began to shout, and shouts like this were very common on the battlefield, especially during the general attack or the decisive battle, and the enemy and the enemy, whether they were officers and soldiers or rogue formations, would often burst out such shouts. Of course, the party with high morale often shouts fiercely, and the party with low morale often can't shout.

Hearing the shouts and shouts in the cottage, Du Wenhuan at the foot of the mountain pulled a mocking smile at the corner of his mouth: "The people of the local chickens and dogs, occupying a hill that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, have forgotten their identity...... If you want to challenge the prestige of the imperial court, you can't do it. ”

He waved the command flag in his hand violently, and then ordered loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, and at the same time as the cannon of the Franc machine gun sounds, give me the whole army to storm and take this cottage with one blow!" ”

"Yes!"

At the same time, Ma Rulong, the general of the Thousand Households in the Shenji Battalion, ordered with a cold face: "Fran machine gun, ignition!" ”

"Ignition!"

The officers and men of the artillery group began to shout, they had already adjusted the muzzle of the cannon, and aimed at the No. 1 arrow tower on the left mountainside, which was closest to the foot of the mountain...... The squad leader of the artillery group picked up a torch and lit an arquebus attached to the butt of the cannon.

"Silk!" The arquebus burst into flames and began to grow shorter and shorter, sparks flying in all directions.

"Cover your ears!"

"Cover your ears!"

The artillerymen, who were relatively close to the Fran cannon, all crouched on the ground and covered their ears with their hands. Even the soldiers standing next to him, as well as Ma Rulong and other commanders, covered their ears together.

The moment the fire rope burned into the cannon's chamber...... Burst into flames......

There was a loud bang, and although the Franc cannon was firmly fixed to the ground by the bracket, it was still dragged up for almost half a day by the huge anti-shock force, and the dirt and white smoke rushed up at the same time, and the small pebbles on the ground within a radius of several meters shook and jumped at the same time.

A large black iron ball erupted from the muzzle of the cannon and roared towards the No. 1 arrow tower on the side of the red mountain.