"My lord, can we stop the thief?"

On the mountain road at night, more than 100 cavalry members had dismounted and formed a formation on the mountain road between the two mountains. The members of the three flags formed three formations side by side, and the three teams of each flag all formed a mandarin duck battle formation and lined up in columns.

In the nine mandarin duck battle arrays, on the left and right are the pro-soldier cavalry and the night cavalry.

The Mandarin Duck team is in front of the team leader with a flag gun, two captains each holding a rattan waist knife to guard, each captain is followed by four members of the army, two bird guns, two hook gunners, and a firefighter at the back of the team. Except for the two captains and the Birdman, the rest of the team stood behind the shield, holding the sentry bow.

The left and right cavalry dismounted and led their horses on the side, ready to mount and attack at any time, and they were also holding horned bows to prepare for battle, ready to support with bows and arrows at any time.

There were only one hundred and eleven cavalry divisions, and with two cavalry teams, there were less than one hundred and fifty men.

Just like that, they ran in front of the big group of thieves and wanted to intercept them. Although the horse thieves have been spared, there are only two or three hundred horse thieves, and there are still more than a thousand bandits behind them.

Holding the bird gun in his hand, the bird gun was very nervous and couldn't help but ask Liu Jun.

"Absolutely." Liu Jun replied that the place he chose to block the ignition was just at the intersection of the two mountains, although it was not dangerous, but it was a necessary place for thieves to guard at this intersection, and at the same time, the slopes on both sides of the mountain also became the wings of the nine-headed bird, which allowed them to only face the frontal enemy.

Besides, now they have to face a broken thief, not a thief who came with a sharp edge. Besides, as long as he blocked for a moment, the rest of the brothers of the nine-headed bird would come to answer and attack back and forth, so Liu Jun was still very confident in his blocking.

"Are we just standing here and stopping? Do you want to dig a trench, build a breastwork or something, or cut down a tree to block the front? A team member next to him asked. He talked about some tactics in Liu Jun's codex, such as how to dig trenches and build obstacles on the chest wall when fighting the enemy in the field, and use these to build advantages and strengthen defenses.

"No, and not that time."

It was still dark, but there was some whitening in the east.

The darkness before dawn.

Liu Jun was wearing a set of vermilion lacquer mountain character armor, wearing a phoenix winged hood, and a heavy crimson silk woven gold cloak was draped over his shoulders, and the cloak with anti-arrow function hung heavily on Liu Jun's back and hung on the ground. The chest of the braided armor full of zigzags was inlaid with a round and shiny bronze mirror of the heart.

Liu Jun did not obey Zhang Shan's request to stand behind the formation to command, he stood in his own personal team, next to the cavalry members in the middle.

It didn't take a long time for them to set up their formation, and soon a bandit broke through the darkness and appeared in front of the Hydra's blocking array.

The man fled in disarray, wearing only a cloth coat and not even a weapon on his body. Liu Jun guessed that this person may have lost his armor and weapons in order to be able to run faster. Perhaps it was because of this that he ran ahead of the others, and was the first to appear in front of the nine-headed bird.

About fifty steps in front of the nine-headed bird's formation, there were a few bonfires there, which Liu Jun had just made alive. The fire was born fifty steps before the battle, naturally not for warmth. It's summer, and there's no need for heating, a fire, it's for lighting. And being born fifty paces ago, just so that as soon as the enemy appears within range, the nine-headed bird can see clearly and aim better.

The enemy is in the light, and I am in the dark.

The bandit was so focused on running away that he didn't even notice what the presence of the two fires meant.

All he wanted was to escape.

Liu Jun sorted out the face protection, neck protection, throat protection, and iron arm hand one by one, and there were no eyes on the battlefield, although Liu Jun had the courage to intercept thousands of thieves with more than 100 people, he didn't want to be shot by stray arrows in the end.

In fact, the whole set of mountain armor is already very complete, with helmets and body armor, heart goggles on the back of the chest, animal head armor on the abdomen, and animal head armor guards on the shoulders, etc., but Liu Jun is still very concerned about his own safety, and specially added a silk cloak against arrows, face armor, throat protection, and even armpit armor, iron arms, guard feet, etc., after being fully armed, he is simply a man in an iron armor suit.

Fortunately, although the Shanwen armor has good defensive performance, because it is a special process of braided armor, the whole body armor adds up to only about 30 catties, and together with other armors, the whole body is less than 40 catties of armor, which is completely within Liu Jun's load capacity.

Picking up the Flying Dragon-type Lumi Gun that had already been loaded with ammunition, Liu Jun blew up the fire rope on the dragon's head, then raised the gun, took aim, and opened the fire door cover.

The running thief was incomparably clear in the light of the two campfires, and he had no idea that in the darkness ahead, a firearm had locked on him.

After a bang, the running thief fell to the ground.

The sound of the guns was crisp, and it was extremely loud in the dark night.

The sound of gunfire is the best order to attack, and one bandit has fallen, but more bandits have appeared in the firelight.

"Hit!"

The cavalry division belongs to the cold ** mixed troops, each team has four bird guns, the whole division has nine teams, a total of 36 bird guns, but the night does not accept and the pro-soldiers team is a cavalry unit, but they are also equipped with a bird gun.

This small blocking position has sixty birdmen. If you add Liu Jun's words, that's sixty-one.

"Tiger Tiger Tiger!"

The team members shouted the tiger word three times in unison, and then aimed at the target and opened fire.

Liu Jun had made arrangements for the firepower of the blocking array in advance, and the firecrackers and bows and arrows were fired alternately, and the firecrackers were divided into three batches to be fired in turn, with the 36 gunners of the cavalry division firing the first round, the 12 pro-soldiers of the pro-soldier team shooting the second round, and the third round of shooting at night.

After the three rounds of fire, the archers took over the second round, and the remaining seventy-three men of the cavalry division were divided into two waves.

In this way, it is possible to ensure that the attacks on the blocking positions are uninterrupted.

After three tiger roars, the first wave of thirty-six bird-gunners fired a salvo, and the bandits who rushed to the front could not dodge and were shot one after another. Fifty paces is a distance that is no problem for the bird-cuffers who train every day.

More than a dozen thieves who fled were shot and fell to the ground, and the thieves behind were startled and confused when they saw this, but they forgot to stop and still subconsciously ran forward.

Another round of gunfire, this time a twelve-round attack by the pro-soldier team, knocked down several thieves.

Now the thief finally understood what was happening, and the retreat was blocked.

The fleeing thieves began to stop and retreat, and when they retreated dozens of paces behind the fire, the gunshots stopped ringing. They finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at each other, and asked each other where the troops were coming from in front of them. But there was only darkness there, and I didn't know who the enemy was or how many there were.

Many thieves and bandits thought that the Huguang officers and soldiers who rushed to the aid of Hutou Fort came, maybe it was Huangzhou Wei, maybe it was Qizhou Wei, or it was the squire army in eastern Hubei.

More and more defeated soldiers fled here and then stopped.

There was a road intersection ahead, but a group of soldiers and horses was blocked there. Unless they go over the mountain and escape, but unless it is really a last resort, who will go over the mountain, there is no road on the mountain, it is easy to be searched and captured, and they can't run far at all.

At this time, several thieves gathered together and discussed the way out with each other.

There were more than 3,000 people back and forth, but in the blink of an eye, the big boss was already dead, the three chiefs were said to be dead, and the other masters could hardly find anyone.

"I don't think there should be many people in front, otherwise they would have killed them directly, so I think we might as well rush over together. Otherwise, the officers and soldiers of the Tiger Head Fort will be killed in a while, and then we will have nowhere to run if we want to. One of the stewards suggested with some annoyance. Who would have thought that with so many soldiers and horses, and even dozens of cannons and hundreds of divine fire flying crows, in just one day and two nights, they had already been defeated so badly, and even almost all of them were gone.

The coquettishness when it came, and the fear turned into fear at this time. He didn't want to stay in this hellish place for a quarter of an hour, he just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.

"I also think so, before the Tiger Head Fort rushed out of a cavalry team, it is estimated that there are only one or two hundred people, or these people in front. Let's rush through together, and we should be able to do it. Another team member replied.

"Damn, it's a pity that the cannons are thrown behind, otherwise, let's put a round of cannons over there, and we'll be able to get through." A steward said with regret.

If no one picks him up, everyone only hates his father and mother for having two legs, and when he escapes, who will care about those bulky artillery. What's more, the previous artillery blew up and detonated the explosive cart, and even the big palm plate was killed, and it was too late for everyone to stay away from those cannons.

"Don't say more if it's useless, time waits for no one, let's rush over directly, if it's good, let's break through the enemy formation and flee back, if it's not good, it's unlucky to die here."

"That's all there is to it, rush!"

A moment later, about 300 or so of the defeated thieves gathered together, began to let out a wild shout, and rushed towards this side.

Liu Jun understood all this from afar, and he silently picked up the flying dragon gun.

Like Liu Jun, the bird shooters also use a half-kneeling shooting method, one leg kneels on the ground, and one foot is bent, which is often more stable and can make the gunners shoot more accurately.

The thief rushed closer and closer, and finally rushed into the light of the fire, revealing his form.

Fifty paces at a distance, the best range.

Liu Jun took the lead in shooting again, and with a bang, a thief who rushed to the front was shot in the neck, and the lead bullet broke half of his neck, and a bloody arrow flew up, spraying half of his body with a running thief next to him.

The thief felt the warm, salty blood of his companion spurting on his mouth, and his heart was horrified, and he was killed with one shot, which was too accurate. He has followed the Ma brothers across the Central Plains for more than ten years, and he is no stranger to firearms, but he has never seen such an accurate firearm. The defenders on the tiger head fort are said to have only trained the village warriors for less than two months.

However, the guns they shot were amazingly accurate, and they rarely found explosions and other situations. In the past, they had not fought against the guns of the officers and soldiers, but they often began to release the guns from afar, and the guns sounded very loudly, but the accuracy was extremely different, and they even often exploded. They also captured the guns of the officers and soldiers, but no one wanted to use them at all. One use is either to blow up the chamber, or it is always inaccurate, and sometimes the fire gun is not tightly sealed, and when it is fired, flames will erupt from the back, and if you are not careful, you will hurt your face and even your eyes. Therefore, everyone either does not use firearms, sometimes the weapons are insufficient, and they are used, but when the guns are released, they also twist their faces to the side early and close their eyes to beat, just like that, sometimes the firecrackers also hurt people like exploding.

For a long time, everyone was not afraid of firecrackers, and they didn't look down on firecrackers.

But this time, they really suffered a big loss under the fire, attacking the city three times, and each time the brothers were injured under the fire. Right now, when a bang knocked half of a pipe team member off the neck, they were all terrified.

There was a dense crackling sound, and then the running thieves fell, almost without a pause, and then there was a roar of fire, and many more fell.

Round after round of firecrackers rang out, like the roar of hell, and the bandits seemed to never be able to reach the distance of just a few dozen paces.

After three rounds of close gunning, there seemed to be a pause, but when a sharp arrow killed several bandits, they realized that there were archers on the other side.

The archers, the almost forgotten archers, although not as loud as the bird guns, are as accurate as the lethality, and one by one the arrows are shot, and the bandits fall one by one.

The pass was very narrow, which made the bandits have to line up very closely when they charged, which made the lead bullets and feathered arrows on the opposite side more accurate and ruthless.

Many of the bandits had no armor, and a few of the armed ones either fled on horseback or died in the previous attack, and some of the remaining people were too heavy to be thrown on the way when they fled. At this time, they could only wear cloth clothes, and even charge shirtless, but they were unable to resist in the face of lead bullets and feathered arrows.

Some of the bandits' bows and arrows were not lost, and they began to release arrows at this time, but they released arrows while they were on the road, and they were shooting arrows in the dark, which was not accurate, not to mention that the nine-headed birds were lined up in a mandarin duck formation, and there were two captains holding shields in front of each team, and most of the arrows were blocked by the shields, and some of the arrows that flew into the formation were also blocked by the bright helmets on the heads of the team members and the cotton armor on their bodies.

After a distance of dozens of steps, after dropping the corpses on the ground, they finally rushed to the front of the formation, only to suddenly find that there were only about a hundred people in front of them, a very thin blocking array.

Some of the thieves breathed a sigh of relief, screaming excitedly and preparing to break through the interception and escape from Shengtian.

"Tiger, tiger, tiger!"

In front of the nine-headed bird formation, there were three loud roars.

After three sounds, the team members began to put down their bows and arrows, picked up long weapons such as hook guns and boring palladium, and quickly changed formations under the guidance of the flag guns of the team in front.

The mandarin duck team in the vertical formation was instantly transformed into a horizontal battle array, and the sword players and teams were always in front.

"Kill!"

More than 100 members of the Cavalry Division's Three Banners and Nine Brigades gathered into a phalanx, and stabbed their spears forward violently, like a blooming rose.

"Thorn!"

"Close!"

"Thorn!"

"Tiger!" "Tiger!" "Tiger!"

A shout, a stabbing gun, stabbed through the bandits who rushed to the front of the formation one after another, and then pulled back vigorously, and with the next shout, continued to repeat the action of stabbing, receiving, stabbing, and receiving.