The herald waved the command flag and gave the order to the gunners at the head of the city. The second round of firing was quickly launched, and this time all 20 rounds missed the target, but they fell into the surrounding group of bandits, killing more than a dozen bandits. The third round was fired again, and this time it successfully hit the target, and the thief's exterminator and the three exterminators on the car were destroyed again by hits.

The bandits also began to return fire, trying to bombard the artillery and catapults at the head of the city, but it was obvious that although they had many cannons, the gunners were not skilled enough, and although the salvo was loud, the hit rate was simply zero, and several rounds of salvo fire did not hit the tiger squat cannons and catapults on the tiger head fort.

After all, the exterminator cannon is often scattered in vehicles, shooting from the city to the city, and it is too difficult to hit it from such a long distance, not to mention that there is a female wall screen in the city.

"Stand back, stand back!"

Ma Shoucheng watched his killer cannon being hit three cars in a row, destroying nine cannons, and he was very distressed. If this continues, if you can't do it, you will have to give all of these 36 guns here. As a last resort, he had to hurriedly give the order to let the riders retreat the cannon, retreating a hundred paces from three hundred paces to four hundred paces below the city.

A group of bandits carrying large wooden shields were transferred to form a formation in front of the gun carriage to escort them.

In this way, it changed the danger of the artillery cart being set on fire by the artillery catapults in the city, but it also made the already inaccurate fire of the captivating cannon more and more unable to hit the artillery in the city. In the end, Ma Shoucheng had to reluctantly stop trying to use the exterminator to knock out the city's artillery, and just let the exterminator concentrate on firing scattered bullets into the city to cover the infantry charging into the city.

The Tiger Squat Cannon and the Catapult fired several rounds in succession, but the extinguishing cannon retreated a hundred paces at once, making it difficult to concentrate the fire again. Seeing this, Cai Yuan no longer did useless work, and only let the tiger squat cannon and catapult aim at the ladder of the trench under the city, and fire scattered bullets at those thieves who wanted to cross the trench.

After being bombarded several times, killing and injuring dozens of people one after another, the thieves were also a little unbearable.

The thieves who rushed to the edge of the trench retreated, and after a while they rushed up again, but they came up with more wooden shields, and some simply carried larger wooden shields, which were like overturned boats, or a king-sized table of eight immortals, with four wooden pillars below, and a large table top, under which the thieves hid.

This method really worked, and the arrows of the fire guns and arrows were shot from the top of the city, but they were all blocked, and it was difficult to shoot the people below.

The officers and men switched to rockets, but the shields were made of improvised trees, and they were all wet and drenched with water, and the rockets could not burn at all.

With this, they finally succeeded in advancing to the front of the trench.

Then they began to fill in the moats, ready to push all the way under the walls. Obviously, there are many disadvantages of crossing the trench through the ladder, the biggest disadvantage is that the wooden ladder can only pass one person at a time, which makes it difficult for them to rely on the big shield to resist the fire bow and arrow when crossing the ladder.

"Thunderbolt throwing."

Liu Jun ordered, immediately dozens of strong and powerful team members, from the body to take out a thunderbolt, this two-pound iron shell flowering bomb can not be thrown too far, but the strength from the city wall several zhang high, can still be thrown thirty or forty steps away, can be thrown over the trench, thrown at the feet of the thieves.

"One, two, three, vote!"

Ergou took the lead in throwing the thunderbolt in his hand, and the pig-iron shell thunderbolt rolled in the air, carrying white smoke and sparks, crossed an arc-shaped trajectory, and fell into the side of the trench.

The thunderbolt bounced a few times on the large wooden shield before falling to the ground, still sparks and white smoke emitting.

When the thieves under the shield saw this thing, their hearts were cold, and many people had already seen this kind of thing last night.

One of the bandits lowered his head and picked up the thunderbolt and tried to throw him out again, but as soon as he got it, the bolt was already burning to the end.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the thunderbolt exploded, and the shell of the pig iron exploded into several pieces, splattering everywhere with the iron sheets and nails inside. The hapless thief with the thunderbolt in his hand immediately splattered red and white like a burst watermelon. More than a dozen thieves under the same big wooden table next to them were also hit, and everyone was injured by the splash explosion, and they immediately fell to the ground, wailing incessantly.

One after another, the thunderbolts fell into the enemy group, exploding and roaring, like flowers blooming in the enemy group.

"Well done!" Liu Jun laughed when he saw the results of this round of thunderbolts.

There were bursts of drums from the city tower behind, and Shen Man and the girls beat the leather drums together, and the drums gathered together and resounded throughout the city. From time to time, there was a sound of girls cheering together, and the majestic and heavy drums, coupled with the crisp female voices, immediately prompted the blood and fighting spirit of the soldiers at the head of the city.

Among the many musical instruments, it can be said that the drum sound is the most motivating and courageous.

The nine-headed bird defended the city, and they all went through arduous training, standing on the city, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

Amid the drums, the thieves were still shouting to carry earth and fill the trenches, but the speed was much slower.

At all times, thieves fell on the edge of the trench, and the blood had already stained the trench red. And the bandits finally showed their fierce side, although no one fell, but they did not retreat to collect the troops, they even simply lifted the bandits who fell on the edge of the trench and threw them into the trench to fill the trench.

"Aim and shoot again, shoot calmly!"

Liu Jun was not afraid of this situation, but only happy. The thief actually wants to play such a desperate tactic, and he really can't ask for it. Using human lives to fill the trenches, Liu Jun started playing.

When the thieves filled the trench with their lives, there was a wall of sheep and horses behind them, and a higher city wall, and even if they broke through the city gate, there was an inner urn city behind them.

How many thieves can fill it in?

Zhang Donggou coldly searched for the target with a gun, as long as there were thieves who escaped from the protection of the big shield within a hundred paces of fire, he would not be able to escape his shooting.

"Bang!"

Another gunshot rang out, and a bandit who ran out of the shield to avoid the thunderbolt was shot in the chest by him, killing him instantly.

"The fifth." Zhang Donggou did not rush to clean the chamber of the gun, but picked up the short sword on the ground and carved another vertical pattern on the hilt. There are already twelve vertical lines on his gun, which means that he has killed twelve enemies since joining the Hydra.

Although the casualties were not small, the bandits still filled in several passages in the trench little by little.

With these passages, they were able to carry the large wooden shield all the way to the other side of the trench, without having to worry about being shot by the city's firecrackers and bows and arrows as they crossed the city.

The bandits erupted in applause, celebrating that the trench had finally been filled.

Liu Jun in the city just sneered, paying so many casualties, it was just to take a trench, what is there to be happy about. Now before the thieves is a wall of sheep and horses built outside the city gates.

The sheep and horse wall was originally a parapet outside the outer urn city, protecting the drawbridge over the ditch and guarding the urn city gate. However, the tiger head fort is designed as an inner urn city, so this one-zhang high sheep and horse wall is actually equivalent to an outer urn city.

There were no guards on the sheep and horse wall, but the wall built next to the ditch still had a strong defensive function. To get to the bottom of the city, you either have to take the drawbridge or climb over the wall.

There is a wall of sheep and horses, which can not only slow down the offensive of the thief army, but also allow the defenders to better shoot the bandits from a high position.

Without several times the number of troops, it is really difficult to take a city with full defense functions head-on. With the city to rely on, the defenders are able to exert great attack power.

The thieves who had crossed the ditch carried ladders to the sheep and horses walls and began to step on the ladders to climb over this new obstacle.

But then, their shields were no longer needed.

Cai Yuan looked at the thieves who came out from under the shield and began to climb the sheep and horse wall, and smiled excitedly, "A bunch of fools, aren't you here to be live rakes for us shotgunners." ”

Indeed, those people have completely become live rakes, and the bandits who lack cover will be mercilessly shot by the birds and gunners on the enemy towers and arrow towers as soon as they climb the wall and emerge.

After almost all the thieves who climbed the wall were shot, the thieves behind began to organize bows and arrows to fight back at the city. However, shooting arrows from below at the top of the city is not as easy as the nine-headed bird soldiers standing in the arrow tower and the enemy tower.

In the formation of bandits in the rear, Ma Shoucheng looked at his subordinates who were constantly falling, and he was furious. He was a little frightened in his heart, he was still unwilling to lose last night, and felt that he was only overshadowed by the defenders in the city.

But now that it has been fighting for a long time, although the team has not collapsed, the huge casualties have begun to shake morale. After fighting for a long time, only a trench was filled, and the city wall had not even really been touched, but the losses were already very heavy.

With such kung fu, at least no less than 300 brothers have fallen forever, and many others have been injured. I thought that as soon as the thirty-six exterminating cannons were taken out, the small tiger head fort would not be broken immediately, but he was wrong, and his mistake was a little outrageous.

Now Ma Shoucheng is a little difficult to ride a horse, and he continues to attack, and he has no follow-up, and if this continues, either his people will be wiped out, or the brothers will collapse and flee. But he stopped here, he was not reconciled, he crisscrossed the Central Plains for more than ten years, led 3,000 men and horses to fight a small fort city, dealt with hundreds of regiments, and actually broke the halberd and sank into the sand, how can this be accepted, not to mention, the people who guarded this fortress also killed his son and thousands of brothers successively.

"Mingjin, withdraw your troops!"

Ma Shoucheng ordered with a dark face.

The sound of bells and bells sounded on the battlefield, and the bandits who were blocked under the sheep and horse walls and could not advance breathed a sigh of relief and retreated like a tide.

After the bandits retreated, one of the bandits rode a horse and carried a white flag to the ditch under the city.

"General Liu in the city, please come and answer."

"What tricks are the thieves going to play?" Zhang Shan sneered, and when he saw the thief retreating, everyone was also relieved. So far, the nine-headed bird has not suffered any casualties, but once the enemy begins to attack the city, at that time, there will inevitably be many casualties.

If the thief is willing to retreat now, of course, it will be a good thing.

Liu Jun can't guess the thief's intentions, but he might as well listen to it.

"The people in the city have something to say, and my general listens." Zhang Shan asked a loud team member to shout to the city.

The bandit shouted to the city, "Listen to the officers and soldiers of the city, although you have the advantage of the city's defenses and have the upper hand for a while, do not forget that you only have a few hundred warriors, while we have thousands of warriors. Now that your moat has been broken, our troops can go to the city at any time to fight. It's just that my general can't bear to be killed or wounded on both sides, so I give you a piece of advice, open the city gate, abandon your weapons and surrender, and my general can save everyone in the city from death. Otherwise, when the city is broken, the whole city will be slaughtered, and not one of them will be left. ”

When Liu Jun heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle disdainfully, and when he couldn't attack the city, he began to lie and threaten. It's a pity that they are facing themselves, and they are not afraid of this kind of falsehood at all.

"Listen to the bandits under the city, this official is Liu Jun, the general manager of Macheng Lian, and now I will also give you a piece of advice, why don't you immediately abandon your weapons and surrender to Yu XX now, how about it?" Liu Jun laughed, "It's useless to talk more, if you have any ability, you can let the horse come, and Liu will take it." ”

The man saw that Liu Jun was not afraid at all, so he had to change his tone.

"General Chengshang, you have to see clearly, what is standing in front of you is just a vanguard of the 5th Battalion on the left. You've held us back for a moment, but there's nothing to be proud of. We have 100,000 troops in the fifth battalion on the left, and we will kill them at any time. Think about it, don't try to be quick for a while, brave for a while, my general will give you one night to consider, a truce today, and wait for your reply early tomorrow morning. ”

After saying that, the thieves rode back to their camp.

Then, the bandits began to retreat slowly, and this time, they retreated directly ten miles from the city to camp down.