The sound of thumping birds came and went, and the usual training finally showed the effect at this time. When the horn sounded, the twenty-four bird gunners of the two flags, and the first wave of twelve gunners were the first to shoot when they heard the order.

After the first wave of firing, the second horn sounded again, and the remaining twelve gunners followed suit.

After a bang, the pungent smell of gunsmoke filled the small ruined temple. Liu Jun was carrying a fire hammer on his back, but he was carrying a bow and firing arrows. For a good archer, it is certainly faster to kill the enemy with a bow than with a gun. However, it can be seen that although the bow and arrow kill more people than the bird gunner, compared to the might, it is obviously the fire gun hand who is more advantageous.

After two rows of birds, about three or four of the thieves who rushed out first were shot and fell.

This hit rate is only about 20 percent. And at a distance of about thirty paces, such a result can already be regarded as unqualified, very unqualified.

However, Liu Jun was not angry, but felt very relieved, in the first actual battle, twenty-four bird gunners could shoot down three or four, which was already very good. At least when no one put the gun, they forgot to take out the stab, and they didn't load the gun with two or three lead bullets too nervously, let alone blow up the bore.

The loud and symbolic sound of the birds immediately stunned the thief. After leaving behind a few corpses, the thieves quickly withdrew to the temple and closed the temple door.

"Jiye, what now?" Li Chunjiang hurriedly asked beside him with a bow.

Liu Jiye looked at the closed wooden door of the Daxiong Treasure Hall and smiled very easily.

"Now the situation is very good, the thieves have been surrounded by us in the Daxiong Treasure Palace, and they have become turtles in the urn, and they are at our disposal." Liu Jun beckoned and called Zhang Shan, the head of the Right Banner Team A, "Team Zhang, go and collect the thief's horse." ”

"The two flags on the left and right come up and surround the main hall."

"Pull the cannon over."

Liu Jun screamed louder than the other, deliberately wanting the thief to hear.

The thieves are now trapped in the temple, although it is called the main hall, but this is only a ruined temple, and the main hall is just a slightly larger room, not only the door is wood, but the walls are nailed with wooden planks.

And Liu Jun pulled six tiger squat cannons up, don't look at the tiger squat cannon, only 36 catties, put it on the ground, and the two iron feet supported it like a small tiger. But the power is extraordinary, using a tiger squat cannon to hit people, accuracy is definitely a problem, but if it is used to get close to a wooden door like Bang, it is definitely a big killer.

Liu Jun's six tiger squat guns were sponsored by Mei Zhihuan, and they are definitely not shoddy and labor-saving rags. It is a high-quality firearm that Mei Zhihuan bought from Guangdong by taking advantage of his connections, and the price is not cheap, but it is definitely a good product.

These six tiger squat guns are each two feet long and weigh 36 pounds, and the gun body is made of wrought iron, with seven iron hoops and two iron feet added to the gun body, which can shoot at an upward angle.

Eight taels of gunpowder are used each time, and 100 buckshot bullets weighing five coins can be fired. At the same time, in order to prevent the problem of small size and large mouth, and the problem of air tightness guarantee, a large lead bullet weighing 30 taels was specially used to slowly build into the muzzle of the gun, so that the air tightness was guaranteed, and the firing range and power were greatly increased.

The firing range can reach more than 300 steps, although it is not as good as the Hongyi cannon can shoot two or three miles, but he is better than light.

When it is fired, the large and small bullets fly out together, the roar is like thunder, and the killing range is very large, which is especially suitable for field battles and bombardment of dense enemy formations.

However, the tiger squat cannon is also very useful for bombarding the city wall, according to Qi Jiguang's military book, the city wall can be destroyed with only two rounds of fifty tiger squat cannons.

Now Liu Jun has six tiger squat cannons, and he can directly pull the cannons to a close distance of twenty or thirty steps to bombard the wooden door and wooden wall of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, and he estimates that it only takes one round to smash it.

The townsmen of the middle banner had already set up several large shields and put them in front, each two shields were side by side, followed by a team of soldiers. Six teams of soldiers surrounded the small main hall, six tiger squat cannons had been raised, and twelve gunners were making preparations.

The bandits in the hall also clearly saw the situation outside, the black and thick iron pimple tiger squat cannon, it can be regarded as a very famous star firearm among the various firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and in the artillery, it is only ranked third after the Hongyi cannon and the Franco machine.

Although it looks small, it is not small.

A group of thieves panicked, they never thought that they had always been elusive, and no one could catch them, but this time they were planted so badly. It was surrounded by a group of officers and soldiers who were so well-equipped.

"There are tiger squatting cannons, and there are so many bird guns, this must not be a township regiment, nor is it a guard soldier, this may be the family unit of a general who crosses the border, damn it, which passing immortal." The leader of the bandit is anxious and angry.

"Big brother, it doesn't matter which way he is an immortal, let's kill him."

"That's it, it's not the first time we've encountered the officers and soldiers, it's mostly the first three shots of the joy, and the cowardly soft eggs. As soon as we get close, they'll have to be coaxed immediately. Another thief shouted.

**Zi cautiously approached the window and secretly glanced outside, only to see that there were no torches outside, but there were many red and bright fire points. He once followed King Chuang to fight in the area of Shaanxi and Henan, and knew that the fire point was the fire rope of the firecracker. It was a bird gun, which shot farther, hit more well, and did more damage than a musket without arquebus.

It seems that there are at least twenty or thirty bird guns outside, as well as six tiger squat cannons, and the other party must have bows and arrows. If they rush out like this, they can only be sent to death.

After thinking about it, he opened his throat and shouted outside, "Listen to the officers and soldiers outside, we have more than 20 monks and women in our hands, and if we don't want them to die, let go of a road and let us leave." But if you give us back our horses, and make way for us, when we reach the bottom of the mountain, we will hand them over to you at once, or else, wait for them to be collected. ”

** Zi waved his hand, and immediately a thief stepped forward with a knife with blood-red eyes, lifted up a scarred woman who was tortured by humiliation, cut it off directly on the head, and then lifted the dead head and walked to the window, and threw it out.

A group of thieves in the temple all let out a burst of howls.

When Li Chunjiang saw the poor woman's head, he couldn't help but clench his teeth.

Liu Jun said without hesitation, "Damn, shoot!" ”

"Fire!"

The artillery team shouted, and the gunners who had already loaded immediately ignited, and with a loud bang, white smoke dispersed, and then more than 100 rounds of lead bullets of all sizes blasted out together, smashing on the door wall in front of the main hall.

The wooden door and wooden wall could not block the heavy blow of the big lead bullet at all, and it was directly shattered.

Hundreds of lead bullets of all sizes blasted into the hall like flying stones, and the thieves did not expect the officials and soldiers to be so ruthless, saying that the cannon would be fired, and the vast majority of thieves were standing in the hall, and when the lead was scattered, they couldn't hide, so they were directly bombarded.

Before the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang had already drawn their swords out of their sheaths and shouted, "Tie the mandarin duck battle array, kill it, all thieves will be killed!" ”

The six teams of soldiers, plus the families of Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun, as well as the night of Zhongqi, rushed in with their knives, and many thieves were directly killed by the round of shelling just now, and the few who were not dead were still full of roaring ears, and they were still unsteady. They were still shaking their heads and shaking their ears, but the villagers had already rushed in shouting tiger characters.

Liu Jun held the extended version of the Qi family knife in both hands, and slashed at a thief. The five-foot-long broadsword directly split the man diagonally from his shoulder in half, and blood splattered Liu Jun's body, and the mixed smell of blood and the broken internal organs made him almost vomit.

Shooting an enemy from a distance with a bow and arrow is a completely different experience than slashing someone in half with a knife facing each other. Reaching out and wiping the blood from his face, he directly raised his knife and rushed towards the next thief.

The surviving thieves finally reacted at this time, their eyes were blood-red, and they rushed towards the villagers with desperate screams. There is no formation at all, it is all based on a momentary desperate heart, and it is not a desperate rush. There were also a few thieves who followed behind with bows, running a few steps and shooting an arrow.

The nine-headed bird villagers were also bloody at this time, and they forgot themselves for a while. In the sound of the horn, in the shouting of the tiger and the tiger, each received a long-range firearm bow and arrow rocket, and all carried a long knife and a spear hook gun to rush in, but the team leaders were firmly pressing the usual training array, maintaining the mandarin duck battle array, cooperating with each other, often a team of people only chased one or two cuts.

Hack one to death, chase the other, and never be easily separated.

The strict training that usually takes place every day is fully reflected at this time. Although the battlefield is very chaotic, there are the captains of the team shouting loudly to lead the team, and the members of each team firmly follow their own captains, although the scene is chaotic, but the bright little red flag on the helmets on the heads of the team commanders is the best guidance, follow the helmet flag, and rush forward to kill.

No matter how fierce the thieves are, they may be able to fight two and one or three, but when they face the nine-headed birds who are fighting together in groups, they are completely powerless. No matter how hard he slashed, there were shieldmen in front of him, and then a few spears stretched out from behind to stab him, and a few more long knives slashed, and he couldn't parry at all.

Often, they cut for a long time, but they didn't cut a single person, but they were stabbed several times, slashed several times, and finally hacked to death like that.

Winter Dog's bird was already on his back, and in the battle just now, he only had time to shoot a thief, and those people fled into the temple. Then the cannon opened the door, and he had to put away the bird's gun, and drew his two-handed long knife to follow behind the captain, and he and the dog were fighting side by side in pairs, following the battle formation of his own team.

His knife skills were far less good than those of the bird, but after slashing and slashing, he found that it was very easy. No matter how fierce the thieves are, there is nothing they can do in the face of the length and shortness of their mandarin duck battle array. On the contrary, with the mutual protection of his brothers, he can carry a knife and slash without worry.

After only a few moments, the thieves despaired. They found that they were no match for those officers and soldiers at all, and ** Zi personally watched one of his best martial arts swordsmen stabbed to death by a team of officers and soldiers. He trembled, frightened, and then he wanted to walk.

The green mountains left behind, not afraid of no firewood, **Zi read this sentence and began to flee to the back of the hall.

Winter Dog saw that the guy was running away, and he had heard a thief call this guy big brother, and he estimated that this was a leader.

Shoot a boss for forty taels! The high reward made Winter Gouzi anxious, this is forty taels of silver, how can he let him run. In a hurry, he ignored the rules of training, threw down his long knife, and took off the bird gun from his back. The bird gun was already loaded, and all he needed to do was take out the fire breaker and light it, then light the fire rope wrapped around his wrist, and clip the dragon head.

Completing the preparatory action in one go, he knelt on one knee, raised his gun, opened the fire door cover, and aimed.

Firmly locked on the figure that fled in panic, the corners of Winter Dog's mouth showed a hint of mockery, such a distance thief did not want to escape from his gun.

He pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

A burst of gunpowder smoke rose, and blood splashed behind the fleeing **, his body leaned back, his footsteps stopped, his hands were extremely open, and then he slowly fell to the ground.

"Hah!" Winter Dog shook his fist hard and couldn't help but scream excitedly.