"The general has an order, and the first brother to rush in will be awarded five hundred taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to three levels."

"Brothers, rush"

"Slaughter them all and avenge your brothers."

Shang Kexi gave an order, the soldiers who served as the charge rushed up desperately, they were originally outlaws, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, greed defeated fear, one by one is not afraid of death, just like a hungry tiger pounced on it, in fact, it is not good to rush, the supervision team behind is eyeing the tiger, which dares to retreat and immediately correct the law on the spot, and the general is watching from behind, if the performance is good and appreciated by the general, it will be a step to the sky.

The Qing army rushed up with the sound of killing, the Sichuan army did not respond loudly, for them, it was good to save a breath to kill the enemy, the enemy rushed up densely, pointed the muzzle of the gun at the crowd, and put a quasi, the Qing army had not yet reached the protective ditch and had suffered heavy casualties, just approaching the protective ditch, the grenades of the Sichuan army began to throw down like money, rushing and rushing, the ditch was wider than zhang wide, and there were many sharpened wooden stakes placed below, if you fall you will definitely die, you want to retreat and dare not retreat, because the supervision team is behind, One by one, they were like meat targets that were slaughtered by the Sichuan army, and they were finally laid with wooden planks, but the Sichuan army threw a grenade and immediately blew it up, and all the previous efforts were wasted.

In less than a quarter of an hour, there were already a lot of corpses lying in wait outside the watchtower, and three or five hundred people had fallen.

Luke saw that the situation was not right, and immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, those subordinates had already wanted to retreat, listening to the signal of ~← chief~← wind~← Wen~ to collect the troops, one by one only hated his father and mother for having two legs, turned around and ran, exposing his back to the Sichuan army, so that during the retreat, many people were shot and fell.

"Who ordered the troops? Who ordered the collection of troops? Shang Kexi was about to send the second echelon, but he didn't expect to withdraw the troops, and he hadn't yet obtained his consent, so he roared angrily.

Luke hurriedly saluted: "General, it was the last general who ordered Mingjin." ”

If it is someone else, it is still possible to rectify the Fa on the spot immediately. However, this person is Luke, then it is another matter, Luke is not only Shang Kexi's henchman and old man, but also saved Shang Kexi's life, loyal and both civil and military, and has won Shang Kexi's trust, Wen Yan only frowned, and asked a little puzzled, "Keyong, it looks like it is about to be captured, why did Mingjin withdraw his troops?" ”

In fact. Except for Luke, no one has the guts to withdraw the troops without authorization.

"If you don't pay the gold again, I'm afraid that all the brothers who rushed up this time will be killed, and the last general will give an order this time without authorization, and ask the general to punish him." Luke immediately knelt down to plead guilty.

Shang Kexi said coldly: "Tell me your reasons, if it makes sense, Ben Jiang will be exempted from your crime of transgression, if the letter can't convince Ben General, don't blame the ruthless military law." ”

"General. You see, that watchtower has a cliff on its back, and we can only attack on three sides, a small lookout. The Sichuan army has prepared new guns, grenades, and artillery, and judging by the appearance of their spare ammunition, the reserves should be sufficient, and the design of this watchtower is also very special. In addition to the protective ditch, there are also some strange pinnacles in front (a lot of pyramidal cones are built with cement), which our war horses cannot pass. This undoubtedly hinders the speed, even if we attack it, but the door of the watchtower can be seen at a glance about the iron gate, it is difficult for us to attack it, this watchtower has two floors, but there is not a window, there is only a small hole, those Sichuan troops are through those small holes to attack us, they can easily cause us to kill, but we can't hurt them at all, they are equivalent to hiding in the shell of a turtle, we can get close, and we can't attack it, and we will suffer casualties. ”

After speaking, Luke sighed and said in a low voice: "General, these are veterans who have followed us from birth to death, they have rich combat experience, and if they die, there will be one less, we have to be cautious, the last general estimates that even if we can capture it, it would be good if there were only one-third of these more than 3,000 people left, and it was because of this that the last general had the courage to let people withdraw their troops." ”

Two-thirds casualties?

Shang Kexi gasped, not to mention two-thirds, even one-third of them can't afford it, you know, for this ambush, they are elite, if these elite casualties are too large, it will affect their own strength, in the eyes of the Manchu Qing, a person's attention is linked to strength, if there are no soldiers in his hands, it is estimated that he will be idle or replaced by others, this kind of thing must not be taken lightly.

To be honest, Shang Kexi hoped that his subordinates were overly truthful, but when he saw the mountain of corpses in front of the watchtower, he was silent.

The dense firepower of the Sichuan army just now made Shang Kexi's eyelids jump, such a fierce firepower, if you rush hard, you will kill yourself.

"There are so many of us, if we can't take this little lookout, how can we explain to the regent when we go back? I'm afraid I have to make my colleagues laugh at it. Shang Kexi said with some hesitation.

Luke had already thought about it, and immediately offered a plan when he heard the words: "General, this little lookout, it's not that we can't attack it, we can change the attack method, don't need human lives to fill it, ours directly bombarded it with artillery, bombard it flat, and see where they are going?" Anyway, the Manchus only need their heads"

That's right, why didn't I think that the Sichuan army could use artillery, and I could use it myself, and I flattened this place, and the credit was my own, and I said happily when I heard this: "That's right, or you think about it thoughtfully, I will leave this matter to you, do it well, and remember your work when the time comes." ”

"Order!"

With Shang Kexi's permission, Luke immediately asked people to transfer the light tiger squat cannon, in order to quickly solve the battle, he transferred as many as fifteen at once, ready to be ashamed, but also strive to take this watchtower before the arrival of reinforcements from the Sichuan army.

"Ready, light the fire."

Luke gave an order, and fifteen tiger squat cannons were ignited together, and soon, the scene sounded with the sound of a fuse burning.

"Boom, boom, boom"

Fifteen tiger squatting cannons roared one after another, bombarding the lead bullet on the watchtower of the Sichuan army, under the explosion, everyone felt that the mountain shook for a while, and after the smoke of gunpowder, when everyone thought that the watchtower would fall, but to everyone's surprise, the watchtower was still standing on the top of the mountain like a rock, but the wall was a little peeling, and the person with good eyes even saw some fragments embedded in the wall.

Oh my God, fifteen artillery pieces shelled at the same time, and they couldn't knock down a small watchtower?

Shang Kexi thought he was dazzled, and wiped his eyes twice, that's right, where is the watchtower, the shooting holes seemed to laugh at his eyes one by one, and Shang Kexi's face turned blue with anger.

"These shells won't be a problem, will they? No, it was quite lively just now, it shouldn't be. Luke was also stunned, and after being surprised, he didn't look for the reason in the Sichuan army, but wondered if the quality of his own shells was not up to par.

"What are you doing, boom, boom, I don't believe that this small turret is an impregnable wall, and it is evil." Shang Kexi was angry and ordered loudly.

Seeing that his general was really angry, Luke didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered to continue the shelling.

There was another boom, and when the second round of shelling passed, Shang Kexi thought that this round of shelling should be able to knock down the small watchtower, but after the shelling, what made everyone gasp was that the watchtower was like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, although it was a little more broken than just now, but it was still standing strong.

I didn't see Shang Kexi and the others surprised, even Hao Feng and Zhong Huan in the watchtower were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths, they thought that this time they would be in a catastrophe, but they didn't expect that in addition to feeling some vibration, and then the explosion made their ears a little uncomfortable, but the watchtower was very strong, even if the hair was not injured, they once thought they were dreaming.

"Brother Zhong, this, this watchtower is too powerful, it can be compared to the walls of those big cities." Hao Feng said with admiration.

"Brother Hao, this little brother really doesn't know, this is why I know that this watchtower is so strong, I won't tell you, when the Governor asked me to come here, the lone army went deep, there were only a hundred people, we even wrote a suicide note before leaving, I didn't expect it to be so strong, I thought that the Governor asked us to die, now I think about it, it is the heart of a villain in the belly of a gentleman."

I didn't have time to pay attention to it just now, Hao Feng touched the wall, it was a little cold, and he said with some curiosity: "I have seen this kind of wall, it is built with cement invented by the Governor, my God, that thing can not only build roads, but also repair watchtowers, amazing, the Governor is really amazing." ”

"It's cement," Zhong Huan added: "I heard the craftsmen who built this watchtower say that it was made of cement, sand, iron, etc., and it is said that the wall is more than a foot thick, and it is said that it has been tested in Sichuan. ”

As soon as Zhong Huan finished speaking, there was another shock in the lookout, it was the second round of artillery shelling by the Qing army's Shang Kexi Division.

"These clear dogs, are you addicted" Hao Feng said angrily: "It doesn't matter how many levels of artillery bombardment he resists, Brother Zhong, let the brothers adjust the corner, our cannon shoots farther and more powerful than them, they come over, let's bomb back, see which one is powerful." ”

Although he was not injured, it was not good to be beaten blindly, especially the shock to his ears, the structure of the watchtower and the resistance to several levels of shelling did not mean anything to Hao Feng, anyway, he was not afraid of them bombing, seeing the enemy so calmly firing artillery, Hao Feng was immediately unhappy, and proposed to use artillery to return fire.

Compared with firearms, the person who can compete with the Sichuan army now has not yet been born.

"Hahaha, okay, the little brother has long had this intention" Zhong Huan said proudly: "Brothers, do you hear, take out our guys, as soon as you hear the sound of cannons, you will know that these Qing dogs are squatting tigers in front of us in the Zhengde period, it is simply a class to get an axe, we will teach him a lesson." (To be continued......)