"Pass my orders, don't fire without my orders, and let me put the bandits close and beat them hard!" Liu Jun leaned on the arrow tower at the south city gate and looked at the thieves sneaking over through the arrow holes, his mouth full of disdain.

It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers. Since this Diamond Leopard is going to come to the tiger's head fort, then this time he has to make him feel pain, and it hurts to the heart, so that he will know that it is powerful. Shooting early, this group of thieves may have withdrawn directly when they saw that the situation was wrong. As soon as they withdrew, Liu Jun didn't dare to chase them out of the city like this. In that case, let them come and beat them hard.

More than 200 bird gunners from each of the nine-headed bird banners were already in place with the arrow tower and the enemy tower, all of them waiting for the order with bated breath. On either side of the wall, there were archers and pikemen. The six tiger squat guns in the team have also been placed at the head of the city, and even a new batch of thunderbolts produced by the firearms workshop has also been shipped recently.

Outside the south gate, the bandits of Ma Shoucheng's department thought that the south gate was quiet, because the little general in the north city had already made a feint to attract the attention of the guards in the fort.

These bandits are all from the Yinghuo Mountains of the Luzhou capital of Nanzhili, all of them are old bandits, they first entered Guangzhou, Henan, where they plundered, and then suddenly entered Huguang Macheng, all the way to the gallop, and even broke through the two inspection passes in Macheng. Because of the success, these people were in high morale at this time.

Generally speaking, if you want to attack a city, you must have siege equipment, you need to have trench trucks, ladders, hitchhikers, and even half-cut boats, crashes, city breakers, etc.

Ma Shoucheng's camp also brought a group of craftsmen this time, including craftsmen recruited from the homeless people, as well as craftsmen who came from the previous siege of the city and land, and a special artisan battalion, and Ma Shouying pulled out a part of it for him when he came.

However, Ma Shoucheng thought that he was unprepared to attack it, and the tiger head fort was unprepared, so he only made a feint attack plan and temporarily made a batch of ladders, and all kinds of other equipment did not bother to build at all.

Seeing that the brothers had already crossed the ditch on a dozen wooden ladders erected on the trench, gathered under the city wall, and began to climb the wall by stepping on the ladders, Ma Shoucheng's hand holding the hilt of the knife was white from excessive force.

If it succeeded, when the brothers jumped to the city, the tiger head fort fell into his hands, and the dog officer who killed his son, he wanted to rip out his heart and liver and drink wine, and sacrifice his head to his son.

More than 2,000 thieves had almost crossed the trench and climbed over the sheep and horse walls, and large groups gathered under the ladders to climb the wall. There are too many people, but there are too few ladders, so that there are a lot of people lined up under each ladder.

The second dog was wearing a copper bubble nail cotton armor, with an eight-petal bright helmet on his head, and his strong figure was even more powerful with the iron armor. He had a pair of iron mesh boots on his feet, two double-edged battle axes in his hands, a waist knife in his waist, a two-handed broadsword on his back, and a bow and a bag of arrows in one side.

The two axes in his hand have already been sharpened incomparably, this is not the iron axe he chops wood, but a steel axe made of fine iron, sharp and incomparable, the axe is cut on both sides, each weighing five catties, such a heavy axe, ordinary people have to hold it in both hands, but he has one in one hand.

Ergou was originally very good at archery, and he could become an archer or a bird gunner. But Ergou finally chose to join the Infantry Division Killer Team as a killer.

Because of his skills, he became the captain of the killer team, according to his equipment is a waist knife with a rattan card, but Ergou prefers axes, two axes in hand, dancing like a windmill impervious to wind and rain, and finally Liu Jun specially rewarded him with two double-edged steel axes.

"Captain Wu, the thieves are coming up, why don't you start fighting?"

A member of the team next to Ergou was also recruited from Taiping Township, and he, like Ergou, sat on the ground with his back to the battlements at this time, quietly waiting for orders. Leaning on the battlements, you can clearly hear the sound of the ladder on the wall colliding with the city wall from time to time, which is the movement of thieves stepping on the ladder to climb the wall.

Listening to the voice getting clearer and closer, the team members couldn't help but be extremely nervous.

"What's the hurry, it's the thief you cut down later." Ergou licked his lips, he was not nervous about the upcoming battle, he was not afraid, only anticipation. Although the current thief killing is no longer as heavy as the previous Winter Dog killing a twenty taels of silver, there are rewards for killing thieves, points, and even upgrades.

He is now a corps commander, and his military rank is a second class corporal, which is the seventh rank of the nine-headed bird soldier rank, and it is also the lowest rank that can serve as a corps commander. If he can be promoted to one level for meritorious service this time, he will be a first-class corporal. If you can get promoted to another level, you will be a sergeant, and if you are promoted to sergeant, you will be eligible to be promoted to team leader.

Soldiers below the rank of Captain need to kill or capture one level each time they are promoted, and now that he is a Captain, it will be more difficult to level up. To be promoted from a second-class corporal to a first-class corporal, two people must be killed, and in addition to their own first-class merits, they must also be promoted by accumulating ten levels of soldiers in this army. The promotion of a first-class corporal to sergeant is more demanding, and a sergeant can serve as the team leader, so a corporal to be promoted to sergeant must have three first-level merits, and the team he leads must accumulate fifteen levels.

The clan brother of the same village, Donggou, is now the leader of the spear-carrying team, and his military rank is a first-class sergeant, which is the highest rank among the nine-headed bird eleventh level soldiers. He even heard that it was said that President Lian was going to promote Donggou to be the flag chief of the artillery department to carry the gun flag. Once it happens, it's a big deal.

The flag general is not as long as the team commander, and when he becomes the flag chief, he really becomes an official, even if it is the lowest from the ninth grade, but he is also a formal military attaché. This is put in Zhangjia Village, which is a great event, and no one in Zhangjia Village has ever been an official. Such a thing will be solemnly recorded in the family tree and passed down forever.

Ergou also wants to be an official, and he also wants to be like Winter Dog. In the past, when he was in the village, he was the strongest in the village's youth, with the greatest strength, the highest stature, and the best arrows. And now, Winter Dog is about to become the flag chief, and he can't still be a military commander.

Fighting, he is eager to fight.

The two battle axes in his hands had already been sharpened, and they were waiting to drink the blood of the bandits.

"The thieves have already ascended the city!" Wang Qian reminded Liu Jun.

"I see it." Liu Jun replied calmly, "Blow the trumpet, raise the lantern, start now, and beat Lao Tzu hard!" ”

Qi Duyan bit the steel knife in his mouth, used both hands, and struggled to climb the ladder up. He is a native of Shaanxi, a farmer, and his family has about 20 acres of land, which can be regarded as a homesteaders. With land and a wife and children, the family is living a good life. But later, the famine continued, and the disaster was extremely severe that year, and there was no harvest in the field, but he was the first in the year.

The so-called first head means that every one hundred and ten households is organized into one mile, and the ten households with the most grain are served as the chiefs, and the remaining 100 households are called the first head. Widows, widows and lonely households who cannot afford to work in each region are taken care of outside and are called deformed households. The ten lieutenant chiefs take turns to serve every ten years, and every year a lieutenant chief leads ten first-class chiefs to serve and is responsible for the affairs of one mile.

Under this system, there is a round every ten years, a round of ten years, and a round of a year. The head of the lieutenant not only has to take turns to take the service, but the most important responsibility is to be responsible for collecting and delivering grain.

In the Ming Dynasty, the most resentful thing for Qi Duyan was the issue of paying grain, when it was his turn to be the first leader, and this year's famine, everyone had no food to pay, but the above didn't care about these, only stared at him as the first head, and asked him to ask for the imperial grain of the ten households. If the food is insufficient, he will pay the difference between the ten households.

The officials took all the land and house from Qi Duyan, and finally before he could make up the arrears, he sold his ten-year-old eldest daughter to finally make up for it.

In the second year, the drought continued, and then the locust plague followed, and the government came to collect grain again, and the head of their first class fled directly with his family, and several other families also fled. As a result, the officials above finally put all the imperial grain tasks of their ten households on the heads of the remaining families.

Qi Duyan has nothing to sell anymore, even if he sells his wife and youngest daughter, he can't make up the difference, and in the end, he fled with his wife and children. The days of the escape were difficult, and a child died of hunger, cold, and starvation.

Later, he enlisted as a soldier in Shanxi, hoping to let his wife and children survive. But there was no good life as a soldier, and they were repeatedly transferred to the border to fight, but they were often in arrears, and even in the end, his wife and children had no rice to cook, and finally his wife had to sell skin and flesh in exchange for food to feed the children.

Qi Duyan and many of his companions finally got angry, made a fuss, and then fled, and finally faced with the ongoing investigation, he had to join the rebel armies in Shaanxi and Shanxi, which were already getting more and more troublesome at that time, like many fleeing border troops.

Many years have passed, Qi Duyan and many rebel armies have risen and fallen, his wife and children have died early, and even one eye has been blinded.

Today's Qi Duyan is no longer the honest farmer he once was, and in his heart, there is only endless resentment towards the Ming Dynasty and the Zhu Dynasty, hating the emperor, hating the government, and hating the rich gentry and profiteers who bully the poor people, and also hating the officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

Killing and blood have kept Qi Duyan alive in this world.

Tonight, he will use blood to commemorate and comfort his wife and children.

Climbed to the head of the city in one breath, Qi One-eye's one-eyed light glowed indifferently, he pressed his hands on the head of the city and jumped up, and he had already jumped up.

"Tick tick! ~”

A burst of high-pitched trumpets suddenly sounded in the quiet night sky, followed by three red lanterns suddenly rising on the flagpole of the dark city gatehouse.

"Kill!" Hearing the long-awaited trumpet, Ergou immediately jumped up, and a bandit happened to have just landed on the top of the city, and was startled by Ergou's loud roar. When he was still stunned, Ergou had already swung his axe and jumped high, and then slashed at the bandits.

The double-edged battle axe made of stainless steel slashed fiercely on the head of the thief who only had a black turban wrapped around his head, and the heavy chopping and slashing directly smashed the thief Tianling Gai who couldn't react, splashing the two dogs in red and white.

"The first one!" Ergou pulled out his axe with great force, and then kicked the broken corpse off the city.