A steel axe slash from Ergou kicked off the battle before dawn.

The nine-headed bird caught the thieves off guard when they were closest to success, and the thieves, who were still excited to take the tiger head fort immediately, immediately fell into the abyss.

On the city wall, countless nine-headed bird warriors suddenly stood up, they were wearing cotton armor with copper bubble nails, copper heart goggles on the front and back, and an eight-petal bright helmet on their heads, and a lock of red and gray tassels on it was so conspicuous.

These unusually well-armed members of the Hydra team, holding rattan cards, silver waist knives, or spears and boring palladium, suddenly appeared and stood all over the city.

The bandits who finally climbed the ladder to the head of the city, but found that between themselves and the city, there was still a shining spear tip, just a short distance, and they could cross it in one step, close at hand, but the end of the world.

"Eat grandpa's axe!"

Ergou raised an axe in his left hand to block a bandit's steel knife and slashed, and with his right hand, he picked up the steel axe and smashed it down. The axe smashed directly into the waist eye of the thief who was standing on the battlement, and the man screamed miserably, and was already smashed down the ladder and fell.

"Phew." Ergou spat at the city and shouted, "This is the second one." ”

The hand-to-hand battle on the side of the city began, and the musketeers and archers on the arrow tower were also ready to shoot. Compared to the hand-to-hand combat of the killer team, the firecrackers are much safer when they stand in the arrow tower. The four-story turret was located above the city gate, and each floor had many shooting holes, so that the soldiers were much safer than standing on the walls, through which they could shoot at the enemies below the city, but the enemies were very capable of attacking them.

"Zhao Shun, take out your thunderbolt and try the power." Liu Jun shouted.

Zhao Shun, the chief craftsman of the firearms workshop, also wore brocade armor, which was produced in the self-made cotton armor of the workshop, and the craftsmanship still had some deficiencies, and it looked more swollen when worn on the body. Hearing Liu Jun's shout, Zhao Shun immediately waved his hand and commanded a group of craftsmen and apprentices to move several wooden boxes up.

When it was opened, it revealed black lumps of iron, like large sweet potatoes. Among the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, there were already all kinds of grenades, mines, mines, etc., and Zhao Shun also set up a grenade group in the firearms workshop according to Liu Jun's request. At this stage, only three types of grenades have been trial-produced. One-catty, two-catty, and three-catty, graded by weight.

The three-pound pack is the most powerful, but it is also thick and bulky, just like a small wine jar. And the outside is indeed a clay pot charge, which not only contains purified granular gunpowder, but also has many broken iron pieces and nails. It's also quite simple to use, when you use it, you can directly plug in the gunpowder and ignite it, and then hold it and smash it down from the city.

Because it is too heavy, it can't be thrown away at all, so this three-pound weight can only be used for city defense.

The two-pound and one-pound ones are more functional, both of which are the shells of a pig iron in front, which are filled with gunpowder, and a wooden handle is connected to the back of the iron ball, which can be thrown after ignition with the front fuse every time. However, the two-pound suit must be a powerful person to be able to throw and kill the enemy, and ordinary people can't throw far.

A pound is loaded with a standard individual grenade.

Liu Jun has tested these grenades before, and the effect can only be said to be unsatisfactory, and some chicken ribs. The power of a pound pack is too small, and the power of a three-pound pack is a little, but it is too heavy. But today's battle is just right for these grenades.

Several craftsmen began to temporarily insert the ignition wire made of sweet potato vine into the grenade, which is also because if the ignition powder is installed in advance, it will cause the ignition powder to be damp due to the weather and other reasons, which will affect the use of the fuse, and it is more conducive to transportation safety without inserting the lead.

"Let's get three pounds first." Liu Jun shouted. Now the city is full of piles of bandits, these people have just crossed the ditch, and now they are all crowded under the city, and it is the time when the fire and thunder are most useful.

"Ready." Zhao Shun replied with a three-pound grenade that had been plugged in the lead, and this model of thunder was named by him as the Heaven-Shaking Thunder.

"The leads are all calculated." Liu Jun asked again.

"Everything is ready." Zhao Shun replied confidently, "After the earth-shattering thunder fell, according to the height of the city, the lead just exploded after it landed. ”

Liu Jun thought for a while, "Make the lead shorter again, and set it to explode about three feet above the ground." "Although the name of the earth-shaking thunder is loud, it can be limited by the power of **, so the power of these three catties is actually not very powerful. What Liu Jun is thinking now is that if it is a volley explosion, then the fragments of the earth-shattering thunder may be more powerful, after all, this is not a solid bullet.

"That's fine, just cut the lead shorter."

Zhao Shun was extremely familiar with this earth-shaking thunder, and according to Liu Jun's request, he took a few craftsmen to cut the inserted primer shorter to ensure that the earth-shaking thunder exploded about three feet before it landed.

"Cast it." Liu Jun nodded to Zhao Shun.

Zhao Shun personally picked up a fire rope and lit the earth-shattering thunder in his hand, the fuse was ignited, and the sparks were burning, Zhao Shun did not rush to throw it down, but waited for the fuse to burn for a while, and then threw it down.

Throwing a thunderbolt is like throwing a brick or a watermelon, holding it with both hands, and then throwing it to the city.

The head of the city is not high, and even if the height of the arrow tower is added, the earth-shaking thunder still falls quickly. Just as Liu Jun requested, the moment the earth-shaking thunder was about to land, it suddenly exploded in the air.

After a loud bang, with the smoke of gunpowder, the fragments of the earth-shattering thunder splattered in all directions.

There was a scream below, and Liu Jun's group of people stood behind the arrow hole and looked down. But all I saw was a cloud of white smoke and screams in my ears.

"It looks like it's going to work well." Liu Jun listened to the scream, and estimated in his heart that there were at least a dozen screams.

Wang Qian asked people to throw a few torches down, the pine oil torch fell to the ground, and the flames drove away the smoke, and then everyone finally saw that the place where the earth-shattering thunder fell and exploded, there was a place with a diameter of about four or five meters, and there was no one standing. There had been a bunch of thieves waiting to climb the ladder, and now, they had all fallen to the ground.

"One, two, three, four, five, one, a total of seven people, all of them were injured in varying degrees of severity, but none of them died." Zhao Shun counted with wide eyes and reported to Liu Jun excitedly.

A sky-shattering thunderbolt directly injured seven rogues, and this result already made him overjoyed. Liu Jun was also very happy, he was injured seven, although he was not killed directly, but this record is also quite gratifying.

Wounding seven is even better than dying. In wartime, it is good to die directly, but when a soldier is injured, he often loses his combat effectiveness, but he does not die, but needs to be taken care of by other soldiers, and even has to consume medicine, which will hit morale. In later generations, many mines were designed to deliberately require them to be injured rather than killed directly, and sometimes the effect of injuring one could sometimes have the effect of reducing the number of personnel by two or three.

"It's very beautiful, and the firearms workshop has a credit." Liu Jun said loudly, and then pointed at the craftsmen, "What are you waiting for, throw all your earth-shattering thunder to the thieves to pay for it." ”

"Heaven-shaking thunder, earth-shaking thunder." Zhao Shun kept chattering, and then excitedly ran to move a new earth-shattering thunder to throw it.

Zhao Shun and other craftsmen were happy, and excitedly threw thunder downward. But the thieves below suffered, and a large number of defenders of the city suddenly poured out from the quiet Nancheng, and they were caught off guard, not to mention, and now the thieves are still throwing huge thunders from above.

With each loud bang, several brothers were injured, and it was impossible to prevent it. One after another thunderbolts were thrown down from the top of the city, just as the birds above laid eggs.

"My legs! Oh my legs! "A bandit was pierced into the thigh by a piece of iron when a fire and thunder exploded just now, and the blood on the thigh immediately did not stop, no matter how he covered his hand, the blood could not be stopped, and the huge pain kept coming, making the young bandit cry out in pain.

"My eyes, I can't see, my eyes can't see" An even more unlucky guy stood there, looking around blankly, but he saw everything, a pair of eyes full of blood flowing out.

"Come again!"

Zhao Shun listened excitedly to the screams of the city, it was simply the most beautiful music. Liu Jun just announced on the spot that each person in the grenade group will be rewarded with 1,000 points. 1,000 points can be exchanged for 20 taels of silver at any time on the current black market. This is a great reward, and the craftsmen are simply a little happy to find the north. Everyone was very excited, and the earth-shattering thunder came more and more vigorously.

"Master, it's gone, it's all over." One of Zhao Shun's disciples stretched out his hand towards the excited Zhao Shun, the earth-shaking thunder has not been officially put into production until now, and now these are only some trial productions, and the number is not much, only thirty-six pieces. Just now, this gang of kung fu has all been thrown out.

"It's gone?" Zhao Shun came back to his senses, turned his head and glanced at the boxes, and sure enough, they were empty.

"The earth-shattering thunder is gone, so bring the thunderbolt grenade."

Liu Jun stopped Zhao Shun, "Don't rush to use thunderbolts for the time being, this wave of thieves' attacks has been repulsed, you see, they are retreating." ”

Zhao Shun looked out along Liu Jun's hand, and sure enough, in the light of the sky, the bandits' sneak attack attempt was completely thwarted. Because it was a sneak attack, they only prepared a small number of ladders, but when the nine-headed bird launched a sudden counterattack, the first batch of people who rushed to the city were basically killed at the head of the city, and those below were bombed by the earth-shattering thunder, and the result was that the fire gun team had not yet come and had time to threaten, and the thieves had already withdrawn to the opposite side of the trench crying and shouting.

"Alright, send the stretcher team up and transport the injured team members back to the fort for the doctor to heal." Liu Jun looked at the thieves who retreated like a tide, and his face was full of smiles.

"Send reservists to clean up the battlefield, and then let the canteen bring the food." Liu Jun ordered one after another, although the thieves retreated, but they did not leave, they withdrew outside the trench, and began to reorganize two miles away from the city, it seems that these thieves are not dead, and they did not admit defeat because of the failure of a sneak attack, this battle is not over!