It was not until the afternoon of the next day that the two thieves, He Guoxian, the king of Shuntian, and Wu Ziqiang, the king of the mixed world, arrived late with the two battalions of people who reinforced Wushan.

It is already the August of the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, the sky is high and cool, the soldiers and horses are very comfortable to march in the mountains, neither hot nor cold, it has been sunny for a long time, and the simple road in the mountains is also very easy to walk. Along the way, He Guoxian and Wu Ziqiang were always very relaxed, although they were ordered to go to Wushan City for reinforcements, they didn't care much.

Thousands of guards of Qu Tangwei, plus a small county town, this is also a thing? That is, Cao Wei and Yang Youliang, the two fools, will not be able to take a small county town with 5,000 people. They laughed at the two, but had faith in themselves.

Just wait for them to arrive, it is not a victory, and it will be a success. But that's fine, I originally gave those two fools a chance to make a fortune, but now they are blocked from the city and stares, and when they arrive to take Wushan City, the gold, silver, money, and women in this city will naturally have to be provoked by them first.

Winning Dachang City, everyone is enjoying grabbing. Not only did the generals make a lot of money, but even the brothers below were all wrapped in gold and silver around their waists and carried silk on their backs. Coming out of Dachang City, they even brought hundreds of women with them for the amusement after camping every night.

Finally left Huguang and got rid of the ten sides of the official army, the king of Shuntian and the king of the mixed world and other thieves and generals all felt a kind of heartfelt pleasure, and the grandson who had been in Huguang for more than half a year was suffocated for several months, and they were all about to suffocate to death. Finally jumped out again, and finally could kill happily, play happily - women, and grab gold and silver.

Unbeknownst to them, one foot had already entered the Ghost Gate, and the other was also stepping in.

"Ten miles more, and then we'll camp!" King Shun looked up at the sky, it was already afternoon. Because the robbers carried a lot of loot along the way, and hundreds of women, they did not move fast. After walking more than 30 miles every day, I stopped to camp.

Every day it was still early, and they had already stopped marching. The thieves would leisurely light a fire to cook, and even send people to sweep around the neighborhood, snatching pigs, cows, chickens and ducks to eat, robbing women for fun, and then robbing their money, and not forgetting to set a fire when leaving.

"The thief has arrived!"

Steve Biao arrived, "The thief is behind." ”

Liu Jun, who was a little impatient after waiting, stood up suddenly, "I've been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

Thousands of bandits arrived in a scattered manner without any formation, as if they were on an outing. They didn't even send a team of scouts to scout the way in front of them, and just ran headlong into the long ravine of the muddy gully.

"Raise the flag and give orders, light the arquebus, and prepare for battle!"

Liu Jun shouted, and immediately, the flag bearer in the flag and drum team behind him immediately raised the order flag. The first flag was raised, and then on both hills, one flag after the other was raised.

Zhang Donggou kept staring at the mountain in front of him, and finally saw the flag that represented the attack raised. Blowing in the wind.

"Array!" Zhang Donggou drew his sword and shouted loudly, and the left part of the baggage camp hidden in the woods immediately started to move like a machine. One after another, orders were handed down, and then the flags of the various divisions began to respond to the flags.

The Qianzong flag on the left of Zhang Donggou's baggage battalion was raised high, and then the flags of the three divisions below were also raised in order. Then the flags of each bureau also responded to the flags one by one, and finally the flags stepped forward, the back flags on their backs were also fluttering, and finally the team presidents of each team also stepped forward. They held their spears aloft, and one flag after another responded with the helmets of countless warriors.

Qi Duyan led himself to start five chariots in one game, and each cart was pulled by eight large mules. The rice and bean coal on the car have already been unloaded. The van was loaded with only two Franc machines and gunpowder buckshot. The mules ran easily, pulling the wagon, under the control of the helmsman, to the valley where the bandits had just passed.

The van rushed to the predetermined position, and Qi One-eyed shouted for command to buy time, in case the thieves found out about the movement and turned around and rushed out of the ravine.

The two mules in each cart were nervously untying the reins of the mules, and the mules had temporarily completed their mission, and now they could leave the field first.

"Formation!" Qi one-eyed shouted, in order to be able to block the valley mouth. They had already been planned, Taniguchi would use vans to temporarily form a car wall, and use the car wall to build a car city. Each section of the city wall will be composed of a game of five cars, four cars outside and one car inside. Five cars in each round form a small car formation, then four rounds form a large car formation, and finally connect to form a car city.

Two mule soldiers set up the wagon that took away the mules, and then took out the iron chain to connect and lock the carts, and then the mule soldiers took a few large pointed wooden stakes and began to lower the piles to fix the van.

"Get off the horse, quick!"

Several baggage soldiers took down the makeshift cabinet horses from the wagon, carried them to the front of the cart, and placed them.

"Sprinkle thistle!"

The tribulus terrestris strings that had been skewered with a thin wire were also taken off the car. They carried them to the horses and scattered.

The six mules and gunners of the main corps had already begun to position the vehicle-mounted Franco cannon and aimed their muzzles at the valley. The other members of the regular team took out their shields and swords and stood at their sides.

Ten members of the Odd Soldier Team, under the leadership of the Odd Soldier Team, stood in the open space between the van and the horse, the team leader held the flag gun in his hand, and held a shield on the other, while his remaining nine subordinates, the eight guns, all raised the flying dragon gun and knelt and raised the gun. The last fireman stood beside the car with a pot on his back, two buckets of water, and a stick with a knife, ready to extinguish the enemy's rockets and other things that could bring fire and threaten the gunpowder of the artillery.

With two Franc machines per car and eight dragon guns, the firearms equipment rate of the baggage battalion is even higher than that of the combat battalion and the training battalion.

When the baggage battalion was nervously seizing and blocking the valley mouth, on the slopes on both sides of the valley, the various units also completed their combat preparations.

In the trenches on the slopes on both sides, hundreds of paces wide, stood in groups of guns. Every other section, a cannon was erected. In order to maintain the lethality of the firearms, these warlords were not built halfway up the hillside, but only sixty paces from the road in the valley. This distance allows the firebolt salvo to have great lethality, while maintaining a certain distance from the road in the valley.

In front of the ditch, thistles, deerfoot stakes, and horse rejection frames have long been arranged, and there is a breastwork wall in front of the ditch. These arrangements will be the most important deterrent to the enemy's rush to the front of the hillside formations on both sides, so as to protect the gunners and gunners.

This kind of ambush warfare, but digging trenches to build fortifications, may be the first time in this era.

Both the war battalion and the training battalion have a large number of killer teams. These fighters equipped with cold weapons were instead arranged by Liu Jun behind the trenches in this battle, and they were arranged behind the gunners and gunners, no longer in front of the gunners as in the previous training, but behind the firearms troops.

Among the bandits traveling through the valley, someone finally noticed that something was wrong. The procession was in an uproar, and many bandits pointed to the flags fluttering on the hills on both sides and shouted.

The Suncheon Dynasty looked in the direction they were pointing, and sure enough, the mountains were full of flags, and there was more than one color. There are red, blue, white, green, yellow, look closely, there are many flags of different sizes, and flags of the same color even have different side colors, with colors, in short, there are many flags.

The well-informed King Shuntian's face darkened as soon as he was on the flag, and the only ones who could play so many tricks on the banner were the officials and soldiers. And generally only the most elite officers and soldiers, because the general guards have long been rotten. Furthermore. So many flags and so many different colors only show one thing, there are officers and soldiers on the mountains on both sides, and they are elite officers and soldiers. And there are a lot of them. Because the officers and soldiers use different colors to distinguish the various departments, and now the flags on the mountain are different from the flag side and flag belt, and how many people and horses are here.

At this moment, the deafening and continuous sound of war drums resounded on the mountain. Then the swan horn sounded again.

"Oh no, we're in an ambush!" King Shuncheon exclaimed.

"Bang!" More intense cannon fire rang out, muffling out the shouts of King Suncheon.

The war horse under Wu Ziqiang's seat was frightened. The man stood up, directly lifted the king of the mixed world off his horse, and then galloped away. "Ambush, there are ambushes, retreat, retreat." Wu Ziqiang got up from the ground, and he didn't care about the severe pain in his buttocks, and exclaimed again and again.

The bandits had already blown up their nests, screaming and running away. However, the thieves were relatively uniform, and they all turned and ran backwards, while few ran forward, or attacked the mountains on both sides.

It seems that it is human instinct to turn around and run, and they are scrambling to squeeze, thinking of running out of this ravine as soon as possible.

On the slope of the hill on the left, Liu Jun's flag was set here, and he condescendedly looked at the panicked bandits in the valley, watching them scramble to flee backwards.

"Another rabble!" Liu Jun said with a laugh, full of spirits. The King of Shuntian and the King of the Mixed World, although his name is loud, he is just a sweeping king and a king of ten anti-kings. He overestimated the bandits, they weren't so powerful.

As soon as he heard the sound of the cannon, he fled in fright.

Such a simple ambush trap, as long as someone who really knows how to fight with soldiers, will not be ambushed so easily. Send a little people to open the way, and when you encounter such a valley and ravine, as long as you check it with a snack, Liu Jun's big battle will be exposed.

"It's so good to fight with bandits, these people are always stupid like pigs, they are completely training us, and by the way, they also give us military achievements." Liu Jun said to Fu Qingshan and other officers with a smile.

"Indeed, the bandits are nothing more than a rabble, and the general has laid such a net that none of them will want to escape."

"Well, beat me hard until they abandon their weapons and surrender."

Qi Duyan listened to the howls coming from in front of him, and the one-eyed was shaking constantly, and his heart was very complicated. Two months ago, he was still a rebel in the same capacity as those besieged in the valley. Like them, he fought with the official army for nearly ten years.

But now, he is standing at the mouth of the valley and has become an official soldier, and many years later, he has become an official soldier again.

The shouts were getting closer and closer, and a large group of bandits could already be seen rushing towards the valley mouth.

Qi turned his head to look at the hillside of the road in front of him, and looked at the trees on the side of the road. As early as yesterday, they had already booked the location of today's formation, and in front of this position, many large trees were engraved with markers, which were the distance markers from the car formation.

Every ten steps, a mark is carved on the tree next to it.

Now, the thieves had rushed two hundred paces in advance, and this was within range of the Furlong cannon of the baggage battalion. The vehicle-mounted furlong machine equipped with the baggage battalion weighs 150 pounds, which is heavier than the vehicle-mounted exterminating cannon of the artillery division, and it also shoots farther, with a firing range of up to 100 zhang, that is, 200 steps.

However, Qi Duyan did not rush to order the cannon, because he knew that the gunners under him were all novices.

One hundred and eighty steps, one hundred and sixty steps, one hundred and forty steps. One hundred and twenty steps.

"Fire!"

Qi one-eyed shouted.

The gunners hurriedly lit the Franc machine on the car.

"Boom!" On the front wall of the car city, puffs of white smoke come out, the valley mouth is as long as 100 steps wide, and the front car wall of the car city is composed of forty two hatchbacks, and there are eight bureaus.

Eighty Franc machines on forty vans were fired at the same time, and eighty three-tael pressure lead bullets flew out of the muzzles of the guns first, whistling out of the chambers, setting off a storm of bloody rain among the thieves in front of the car wall.

Although the gunners were all new, the valley mouth, which was only a hundred paces wide, was crowded with thousands of people. I can really hit it with my eyes closed. The three or two heavy buckshot looks small, but the lethality is extremely amazing, and the middle one will die.

But compared with these large lead bullets, the biggest damage caused by the 80 Franc machine shells of the baggage battalion was the shotgun lead that was one step later in the big lead bullets. Each cannon is loaded with hundreds of small lead and small iron sand, and as soon as the cannon sounds, countless iron sand comes out with the spray, flying sand and stones, and the iron sand storms.

The thief army, which had just been plowed out a few gaps in the bandits by eighty large buckshot bullets, immediately suffered an even more violent blow. The thieves who rushed to the front. All at once, it was swept down by iron sand, and it fell like a candle blown by the wind.

This time, dozens of people were directly defeated.

The people behind had not yet recovered from their panic, and Qi Duyan was already shouting the second launch order. At this point, it was just over the first launch. With a bang, the artillery fired another salvo.

A pressure lead bullet roared into the crowd of thieves, directly smashing the flagpole of the camp flag of King Shuntian. The flags fell, trampled to the ground by the fleeing bandits.

Another buckshot came. An unlucky guy was shot in the head, and then the person next to him saw that half of the man's head was gone.

Then another sandstorm of iron sand swept by.

"Come again!"

Qi Duyan shouted, and the gunners quickly pulled down the bolt. Another gunner quickly clears the chamber of the gun, and the other person puts another preloaded gun into the belly of the mother, and then inserts the bolt to complete the loading.

The main gunner didn't aim at all, and just held the torch and lit it and fired. The thieves are so dense that they don't need to aim at all, not to mention that they still shoot shotguns.

The Nine-Headed Bird Heavy Battalion's vehicle-mounted furlong machine is equipped with nine sub-cannons per gun, and if two guns are fired in rotation, it can basically achieve uninterrupted firing.

After three consecutive shots, the barrel of the cannon was already a little hot, and a gunner hurriedly took out a wet cloth from the bucket next to him and surrounded it on the barrel to cool down the barrel so as not to overheat and explode.

"The retreat is blocked, it's full of artillery, turn around quickly and rush forward!"

After several rounds of intensive shelling, Taniguchi had left hundreds of corpses behind, and the bandits finally realized that the road was impassable, and then began to turn and rush south.

In less than a cup of tea, hundreds of people were killed by the bandits, and they did not even see the faces of the officers and soldiers. This kind of battle is the most terrifying, especially since many of the bandits are just new recruits and have not even seen blood. In the past, they were just ordinary people, and even elementary school apprentices and craftsmen, and they might not have even seen what a cannon looked like. Suddenly, they were bombarded intensively by artillery fire, and the earth-shattering explosion was like thunder, which directly destroyed their psychological defense.

King Shun was also fleeing, he had not seen a cannon, nor had he not been subjected to shelling, but he had never encountered such an artillery bombardment. Being blocked in a narrow valley, encountering such a huge artillery group in this unfortunate terrain, it is really a shame to be in the sky, and the ground is not spiritual.

There were so many cannons, and they were as damn as they could to release shotguns, and they were released so fast, almost without a break. Waves of iron sand swept by, just like a farmer cutting wheat in autumn, cutting a large field.

"Damn, didn't you say that the guards in Wushan City are Qu Tangwei's guards, why are there ambushes here, and there are so many fucking cannons? Is this the emperor's personal expedition, why are there so many cannons? ”

"Rush to the front, the cannons of those dog officers and soldiers are blocked behind, and if you rush to the front, you can survive." King Shun shouted loudly and took the lead in rushing to the south of the valley.

As soon as his words fell, he heard the sound of swans and horns in the valley, and then the thunderous sound of cannons on the slopes on both sides, interspersed with the sound of many crisp fires like fried beans.

King Shun is like falling into hell, the whole person is desperate, and the people around him are constantly falling. The screaming grew louder and louder, and then he saw the soldiers walking in front of him, and his whole head exploded, like a ripe watermelon. He used to like to eat watermelon very much, especially in the summer, when it was so hot that people died, put the watermelon in the well and ice it for half a day, and then cut it and eat it, it was really cool.

But now, he only felt sick to his stomach. King Shuntian has rebelled for many years, and the ghosts under the knife are not a hundred but eighty, but at this time, when he saw the tragic death of his own soldiers, he was really disgusted and wanted to vomit.

As soon as his feet were weak, King Shuntian fell directly to the ground. He knew it was a good way to deal with the shelling. Originally, if it was just a small number of cannons, there was no need to lie down at all, because ** it was all up to luck, and if you were lucky, you could hit it. And in the event of shelling, it can only be relied on luck, and no one knows where the shell will fly from.

But now, King Shun felt that his luck was extremely bad, and the sky was full of big buckshots, and small buckshots were even more in groups. He didn't dare to get up except lying on the ground. Those who are still running, but they have never been able to outrun the lead of the shells.

Although the bandits ran out of range of the guns at the mouth of the valley, they came within range of the gunners and gunners on the slopes of the valley on both sides. Moreover, the cannons and guns on both sides were very close to the road in the valley, only sixty paces.

The bandits ran in a death passage, and no matter how desperately they ran forward, there was always a constant bombardment of artillery and firecrackers in front of them.

Fall, fall, keep falling. (To be continued......)