The horn of attack had already sounded in the fog outside the city, and Wang Zhixian and the others, who were happy to have strong troops coming to help, immediately changed their faces.

"The thieves are going to attack the city, how can this be good."

Liu Jun didn't have the slightest fear, but just asked his old acquaintance Zhu Pet Qianhu, "Do you know where this thief army outside is coming from, and what is the strength of the army?" ”

Zhu Pet immediately replied, "According to my night search, there are more than 3,000 thieves outside, and the leader of the thieves is the ancestor of the famous Lin heir, who is the son of the troubled king Lin in the fifth camp of the back left, and he has been under the city of Huang'an for three days, but he has been besieging but not attacking. ”

Zhu Pet knew Liu Jun, and also knew the strength of the nine-headed bird led by Liu Jun, and heard that Liu Jun had just annihilated the three thousand thieves led by the old Huihui brother Ma Shoucheng in Hutou Fort, so he trusted Liu Jun more and more. He did not lie about the enemy, but told the truth.

"It's only three thousand." Liu Jun turned his head to Wang Xianling and Liu Tuan, "Everyone, there are only 3,000 thieves, but we have a strong city to rely on, so we don't have anything to fear." ”

"There are three thousand thieves, but we only have a few hundred, plus your reinforcements, there are less than a thousand, and we are still outnumbered."

Liu Jun shook his head, "No, Sun Tzu has a cloud, the method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and if it is multiplied, it will be divided, the enemy can fight, if it is less, it can escape, and if it is not, it can be avoided." I think you all know the meaning of this: if you have ten times the enemy's strength, you should encircle the enemy, if you have five times the enemy's strength, it is better to attack the enemy directly, if you have only twice the enemy's strength, you must try to disperse the enemy, if you have equal forces to defeat the enemy, if you have fewer troops than the enemy, you must retreat, and if you are inferior to the enemy, you must avoid a decisive battle. ”

This art of war is very easy to understand, if you have ten times the enemy's strength, you don't need to rush to fight at all, you can directly besiege the enemy, you can surround the enemy to death, and finally make the enemy surrender without a fight. If there are only five times the enemy's strength, the siege will not be enough, and at this time it is necessary to launch a decisive attack and quickly resolve the battle. If you have twice as many troops, you'll have to find a way to spread them out so you can win a better rate.

Now the thieves are about three times as strong as the officers and soldiers, and the siege is not suitable, and the direct attack will inevitably lack the troops. Especially in this kind of siege warfare, the besieging side traditionally needs to have seven times the strength of the defending side to attack, and the defending side can still hold out for at least ten days and a half months.

Now that the thieves are attacking from afar, the officers and soldiers may come to the rescue at any time, in this case, there are only more than 3,000 thieves who want to capture Huang'an, Liu Jun seems to be a fool's dream.

Moreover, there are many advantages in defending the city and fighting, the young and strong people in the city can go to the city at any time to assist in the defense, even if it is just throwing stones, it can play a great role, in this regard, the young and strong people who can be mobilized in the city can add up, can exceed the thieves who are besieging the city.

"But now that the fog is thick, the thieves are attacking the city at this time, which is very bad for us." That Liu Lian was not at nothing, pointing directly to the current unfavorable situation.

Liu Jun looked at the fog, it was estimated that it was already morning at this time, but the fog was still very big, and it seemed that it would not dissipate in a short time.

The thieves took advantage of the fog to attack, which did cause many disadvantages to the defending side.

"It's not that the fog can't be solved." Liu Jun said disapprerovitically, "Immediately send someone to fetch straw and firewood and bring it to the city, light it and throw it down to the city." ”

Mei Qing suddenly understood Liu Jun's intentions, "It's a good way to use fire to drive away the fog." ”

In fact, in winter, sometimes fog and frost will cause great damage to crops, and then people will burn straw firewood in the field to drive fog and frost.

"Why didn't this official think of this, Liu Lian is really wise." Wang Zhixian exclaimed sincerely.

Liu Jun didn't want to talk nonsense, the thieves had already blown their horns, and they had besieged the city for three days without attacking, and this first siege would be very fierce. He said to Wang Zhixian, "Please ask Wang Zhixian to organize the people to transport straw and firewood to the city, and Liu Lian will organize the young and strong people in the county to go to the city to assist in the defense, as for the frontal battle, leave it to me, Zhu Qianhu and Mei Gongzi, the three soldiers and horses." ”

Wang Zhixian responded repeatedly, and when he encountered such a big matter, he wished he could hand over the post of defending the city and fighting.

Liu Jun and Mei Qing came to the city with reinforcements.

"Brother Jiye, how are we going to fight?" Zhu Pet asked, when he was in Qiting before, he called Liu Jun his nephew, but now he has given Liu Jun a generation and changed his name to brother.

"The thieves are besieging the city on all sides, but I expect that the thieves will concentrate their forces to attack one side, and the other three will bluff and feint." Liu Jun said.

"But how do we know which side the thieves will attack?"

"So we can only defend on all sides now, and I guess the thieves are most likely to storm the north gate, followed by the south gate, and then the east and west gates. I plan to have the nine-headed bird defend the north gate, the south gate led by the master of a thousand households, the east gate led by Mei Gongzi, and the young men in the city to guard the west gate. When the war is over, we will judge the direction of the thief's attack and make adjustments when the time comes. How is it? ”

"I'm fine." Mei Qingdao Road.

Zhu Pet originally wanted to follow Liu Jun, but seeing this, he had to nod his head.

Piles of straw and firewood were thrown down and set on fire. Under the city on all sides of Huang'an City, piles of fires were lit, orange flames rose, and the thick white mist gradually dissipated, and the field of vision broadened.

"The dog officer has a bit of a brain."

In front of Huang Annan's gate, Lin Sizu looked at the piles of fires under the city with a gloomy face, as well as the thinner and thinner mist, and said gloomily. It was an excellent siege cover, but it was suddenly broken by the official army.

"King, do you want to continue the attack?" A bandit leader asked.

"Keep blowing the trumpet and give it to me."

Although the fog dissipated, Lin Sizu had no intention of stopping the attack, and if there was no fog, then the attack would be.

"Drive the captured people forward and let them fill in the trenches."

Xiaobawang said coldly, his camp captured many nearby people, these people's property was robbed by them, wives and daughters were **, and then they were forced to help them cut down trees and trees, set up camp, make siege equipment, and now, they are driven to fill the trenches.

The fog was dispersed by the fireworks, and on the southern city, Liu Jun and the nine-headed bird regained their sight.

In the distance below the city, a large number of people appeared, not bandits, but ordinary people.

"My lord, the thieves drove the people up to fill in the trenches!"

Liu Jun stood on the tower of the city gate and watched all this clearly.

"My lord, what should I do?"

Liu Jun was silent, there were thousands of people under the city, densely packed, if they shot, these innocent people would fall here, if they didn't shoot, they could quickly fill the trenches for the bandits, and then maybe they would have to attack the city again.

It's not that Liu Jun doesn't understand the stakes, it's just that he is a guest soldier who came to help, and he really doesn't want to give this order to shoot.

He was still hesitating, but Wang Zhixian and Liu Lian had already heard the news and hurried over, and as soon as they saw the dense crowd of people below, their faces immediately changed greatly.

"Lord Liu, shoot and release the arrows, if they are allowed to fill in the trench, Huang Ancheng will be finished."

"Yes, Lord Liu, there must be no woman's kindness at this time."

Liu Jun turned his head and glanced at the two of them, then turned around, "Wang Zhixian and Liu Tuan have orders, and those who dare to approach the city wall will be killed!" ”

Bang bang bang!

There was a loud roar, and the exterminators and tiger squatting cannons on the city wall roared in unison, and for a while, countless iron sand and lead sprayed out, covering the front of the moat. The people who had been driven by the bandits immediately fell in large numbers, and those who were not injured also fell to the ground in fear. The thieves behind took the scabbard and beat them desperately, telling them to get up and continue to fill the trenches, but many people didn't get up at all, no matter how much they whipped, they didn't get up.

The power of the artillery is too powerful, and ordinary people have long been weak when they see it.

Mei Qing also rushed to Nancheng with half of his family members to reinforce at this time, and when he saw the fierceness of those bandits, he couldn't help but be angry.

"Bring a gun." Liu Jun shouted to the newly recruited pro-soldier Wang Ergou.

Ergou hurriedly handed over a flying dragon gun, Liu Gong saw that the ammunition had been loaded, and shook his head, "Don't want this, bring the unloaded flying dragon gun." ”

Ergou handed Liu Jun another unloaded flying dragon gun, and Liu Jun took it, not using the usual custom-packed paper bullets, but took out a different buckshot from a cowhide bullet pouch on his waist.

Mei Qing looked carefully and found that the lead bullet that Liu Jun took was not an ordinary round bullet, but a slightly cylindrical shape, with a small round head in the front, a thin neck in the middle, and then a hollow back.

This kind of appearance is actually very similar to the badminton of later generations.

Liu Jun skillfully completed the loading, and then the butt of the gun was against his shoulders and cheeks, he stood and aimed, locking the leader of the thieves in the city who was desperately whipping a group of people with a scabbard, that person was only wearing a leather armor, and he was already standing within Liu Jun's range, and Liu Jun aimed directly at his face.

The trigger was pulled, the fire door lid opened automatically, the fire rope ignited the ignition powder, and with a bang, the gun slammed backwards.

Mei Qing quickly picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, searching for the results of Liu Jun's shot, and she quickly found it.

In the clairglass, I clearly saw that the thief was shot and fell, and the camera moved forward, just to see the part where Liu Jun's shot hit, and the shot hit the thief's right eye.

What is presented in the mirror is a blurry piece of flesh and blood, the peculiar lead bullet is really different, it actually smashed half of the thief's head with one shot, Mei Qing has never seen that kind of terrifying killing effect, and suddenly couldn't help but feel nauseous, and hurriedly ran while holding the battlements and vomiting away.

After a while, the nausea was suppressed, but he didn't dare to take the clairvoyant mirror to look at it again.

"Why is this buckshot so powerful?"

"This is one of the new special ammunition that we have developed in the arsenal, which will kill if you hit the face, kill if you hit the chest without armor, and if you hit the limbs, you will be crippled. Even if you wear armor, there is a fifty percent chance of death. Liu Jun said a little proudly, this kind of lead bullet has a stronger stopping effect than a round bullet, and the cavity formed is also larger, which is already somewhat similar to the effect of a dummy bullet, although it is not so terrible cavity effect, but it can be regarded as taking shape.

"Are there any other powerful bullets?"

"Of course." As he spoke, Liu Jun took out another bullet, but this time it was a pointed bullet, and it was covered with a layer of copper. What's even more peculiar is that the tip of this copper-clad tip bullet is empty, revealing a thin lead core.

"Will this pointed-tip bullet work?" Mei Qing asked curiously.

"Well, within sixty steps, the effect is still very strong, if it exceeds sixty steps, the accuracy will not work."

"Isn't your Wyvern gun only having a range of more than 100 paces, and now it's only 60 paces with this pointed bullet, wouldn't that be more than worth the loss?" Mei Qing was puzzled.

"If you look closely, you will know how powerful this bullet is."

Liu Jun confidently loaded the ammunition, different bullets have different effects, just like this pointed bullet, although the range is greatly reduced, but it has a unique armor-piercing ability.

Liu Jun aimed at a bandit under the city again, this time aiming at a bandit wearing a set of bright light armor, at first glance he was a leader, full of iron armor, and he was also very arrogant, riding a horse to the front of the moat, it seemed that he was relying on the armor on his body, and he was not afraid of the bow and arrow fire in the city.

In order to prove the effect of the pointed bullet, Liu Jun did not aim at the face of the thief, but directly aimed at his chest. There is a large piece of heart guard, which is difficult to hurt with a bow and arrow.

However, Liu Jun believed in his armor-piercing bullet and pulled the trigger specifically at the heart guard.

The thief shook his body a few times on the horse, and finally collapsed.

The officials at the head of the city couldn't wait to take the clairvoyant mirror to observe, and even Mei Qing couldn't help but hold the clairvoyant mirror to look at it again.

Dozens of steps away, the thief in heavy armor was already lying motionless on the ground, a bloody hole in his chest, bleeding constantly, even if he had heart guards, but it didn't protect his life.

"Awesome!" Everyone couldn't help but praise it.

"You get what you pay for." Liu Jun said with a smile, "This bullet is not cheap, it is completely handmade, and the quantity is limited, but the lethality is indeed very good." ”

There were several roars in the city, and the thieves who were still driving the people forward fell to the ground one after another.

It was Liu Jun's own soldiers shooting, these spearmen were all excellent team members with excellent riding and archery, and this time Liu Jun took the lead in equipping the first batch of flying dragon guns in the workshop to his recruit team, and also equipped them with those special ammunition that were still in trial production.

These pro-soldier team members, equipped with dragon guns and special ammunition, also temporarily act as snipers.

The firecrackers, which are usually not very feared in the hands of the officers and soldiers, are almost every shot in the hands of these pro-soldier blockers, killing with one blow and killing with guns. No matter how thick your armor is, you won't be able to stop them from buckshot.

In just a few moments, the bandits who drove the people in front of them had all been shot and killed in the city.

There was a moment of silence on the battlefield, the people were lying on the ground and shivering, and the thieves who were driven away fell in a pool of their own blood.

The artillery fire on the city has stopped.

The sound of gold finally sounded in the thief array under the city, and the thieves who got the retreat signal retreated like a tide, and their hearts were palpitating.

Under the city, they left behind dozens of corpses, as well as thousands of captured civilians.

There was a burst of cheers and cheers on the top of the city, and everyone was amazed and cheered for Liu Jun and his subordinates.