The horse thieves were very arrogant, but the wall was a very impenetrable barrier, and it was not as easy to break through as they said. Li Xin knew this well, so he was not in a hurry to fight with him, but asked and answered them.

"I don't know where the heroes of the city come from? Can you know that this is the Ming Dynasty Acropolis? Such a blatant siege is not afraid that the officers and soldiers will kill you? ”

asked three times in a row, in exchange for three ridicules from the city.

"The dog officer told a good joke, we were born to be enemies of your Ming court when we were horse thieves, and now it is clear that the chariots and horses are coming to rob us, what can the dog officials do except to shrink into the city?"

Although the horse thieves were a stone's throw away from the city wall, Li Xin could still clearly see the person who spoke wildly, a short and stocky man on horseback, and he was obviously a leader of the faction.

Qian Tai suddenly seemed to be stunned, secretly pulled down Li Xin, and muttered softly beside him: "Lord General Soldier, we have set up cards by the Yanhe River these days and confiscated tens of thousands of goods. Although the horse thieves are arrogant on weekdays, they rarely take the initiative to attack the city fortress, are they the merchants......

Li Xin has not thought about this question, but this matter is destined to be a confused account, horse thieves come and go like the wind, and it is almost impossible to obtain key evidence. However, the possibility of making a fortune is not impossible. In any case, it's hard not to imagine that the horse thieves are attacking at such a critical juncture.

"Yes and no, I'm afraid they will all return in vain today."

The Qian Tai horse thieves are powerful, but they don't have Li Xin's confidence.

"Lord Commander, why don't we send a few people to ask for help......

Of course, Li Xin is not a big man, and he wants to attack the Acropolis with nearly three high walls with a thousand people, and he can't help but underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Ming official army. Even if there are two fatal gaps, after several days of repair, the problem is not big. A fortress built for military purposes on a scale like this is simply a fool's dream to be attacked by people who have not received special siege training or have no siege experience, and there are no 10,000 people.

They have neither large-scale tools for destroying the city walls, nor climbing tools such as ladders, and no one will believe them if they rely on the tune of thousands of people who are still playing with ants to attack the city. But Qian Tai, who has not experienced much battle in the city, does not know that although the military households have the name of Tuntian soldiers, they may only have taken a hoe in their lives, and they don't know anything about fighting, so they don't know either.

It is precisely because of this that when they first heard about the horse thieves attacking the city, they were frightened into losing the six gods.

Li Xin was noncommittal, but there was an impatient shouting and scolding from the city.

"How? Scared? If you are afraid, you will obediently hand over your goods, and when the time comes, your brothers will be happy, and you will be spared death!" ”

Li Xin still didn't take a stubble, but asked Qian Tai beside him.

"Governor Qian, are the horse thieves in our border town so arrogant?"

Chantai nodded and shook his head. And then there are endless explanations.

"The horse thieves are indeed arrogant, but they are only confined to the wilderness, and Qian Tai is stupid to attack the city with thousands of people like this, but it is the first time I have heard of it."

Li Xin's voice of conversation with Qian Tai began to soften as he stretched out his hand to point out of the city. "Look at the horse thieves outside the city, do you see anything?"

Qian Tai had the courage to sweep the horse thieves outside the city, which reminded him of the day when the Mongolian Tatar city was also a thousand people......

"Qian Tai is stupid, I didn't see the clue!"

Li Xin shook his head and shouted to the city:

"The goods are in the city, and it is the duty of the general, so I will not obey my fate. But you can take it yourself, why bother to make noise and talk in vain! ”

The stocky Humpty Dumpty man was speechless for a while, and pointed at Li Xin with a burst of curses like beaded beans. "You, you wait......" The local dialect was used eagerly, Li Xin couldn't really hear it, but Qian Tai understood it.

He seemed to understand, and said to Li Xin: "Lord Commander, but you want to say that the horse thieves are very weak? ”

Li Xin high-fived and praised: "That's right! Then he shouted to the Ming army that had already been lined up in the city: "Everyone prepare, the horse thief enters the ten steps range, and immediately throws iron thunder!" ”

"No!"

At the moment when Li Xin and Qian Tai were talking, Gu Shishi led dozens of fellow villagers from Zuo Qianhu to the city. After all, the acropolis of Zhenyuwei is not a big city, and it is already very crowded with hundreds of Ming troops standing. Therefore, although General Li had an order for him to take everyone to the city to watch the battle, he could not carry it out truthfully. So I only ordered my fellow villagers to come up.

Gu Shishi saw that the people outside the city were all horse thieves, and the chief soldier was still in the mood to gossip with the governor, and secretly sighed to himself.

No matter how the horse thieves scolded, Li Xin just returned it to them with a word, telling them to attack the city quickly and not suddenly make noise. Perhaps they were forced to be in a hurry, and hundreds of horse thieves actually galloped towards the city. Qian Tai's heart tightened, and he said, it's over, it's over, the horse thief was provoked to attack the city. Although Li Xin repeatedly hinted that the horse thieves outside his city were just lustful and inward, he was once bitten by a snake and was afraid of the well rope for ten years.

The Ming soldiers, who had dared to protect the soldiers, also felt that their throats were tight, after all, they rarely fought when they were in the capital, and they were attacked at the mouth of the wild wolf, so they instinctively had doubts about whether they could hold the city wall under their feet. But seeing that the chief soldier Li Xin looked like he was in his chest, he was bold and ready to fight.

The distance is shortened at a point, and after a distance of twenty paces from the city wall, it is actually galloping forward, and it is impossible for the cavalry to attack the city, and the purpose is only to show off their might, but it is rare to show off their arrogance to this point, and the distance of fifteen steps is in the blink of an eye.

Li Xin shouted: "Everyone throws bombs!" ”

The reason why the order to drop the bomb was fired at a position of fifteen paces was because when the Ming army finished throwing the bomb, the horse thieves ran exactly ten steps away from the city wall. This distance is the best distance to throw Iron Thunder.

With Li Xin's resolute order, more than 100 iron thunderbolts roared out like hailstones. The horse thieves had seen the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone and the Tank of Oil, but it was the first time they threw the Iron Pimple, so they didn't take it seriously, and the Iron Pimple was small, and the chance of hitting them was even smaller.

In just a few moments, the horse thieves paid a terrible price for their reckless actions. Most of the iron bumps fell in the cavalry team of the horse thieves, and there were not many people who directly hit them, but the deafening sound of the explosion directly frightened the horses and scattered in all directions.

The horse team of hundreds of people collapsed in the blink of an eye. Qian Tai was dumbfounded, the chief soldier of the three guards has been very low-key since he took office, and he could hardly see how he trained his troops, but he didn't expect that if he didn't make a move, he would be full of flesh and blood. I don't care if he looks like he has a bamboo in his chest, and after making trouble for a long time, he has this iron lump in his hand that can bloom and explode on its own.

With just one throw, the horse thieves under the city fled privately, and if the horse thieves rushed up together, wouldn't they be wiped out in an instant? At the same time, Qian Tai thought in his heart, if the soldiers defending the city were equipped with a large number of these things, would there be any undefendable cities in the world? Unbeknownst to him, the Iron Thunder, though powerful, was hampered by the inability to preserve it on a large scale and the shortage of raw materials.

Since the gunpowder in the iron thunder is the most susceptible to moisture, so that the iron lump will completely turn into scrap iron, so in order to increase the explosion rate of the iron thunder, Li Xin's compromise method is only to produce it by surprise before the war. Therefore, every time they participate in battle, the number of such iron mines is not enough to equip the whole army, and only people with strong arms can be selected to act as throwers.

As for the iron thunder in the hands of these guards, although it was brought by the Beijing Division, because it was out of winter, it went all the way to the northwest, and the air was getting drier and drier, so the probability of failure due to moisture was greatly reduced, so it continued to be used until now. And after the wear and tear along the way, the number of this kind of iron thunder is on the verge of exhaustion, if there is any more fighting, I am afraid that it will have to be hand-to-hand.

Humpty Dumpty, who was stocky outside the city, was shocked by this sudden reversal of the scene, and after a short period of distraction, his heart ached like a knife, hundreds of brothers were his heart's meat, and if he said no, he would be gone, not to mention his reputation outside the fortress in the future, and what was even more severe was that after his eyesight was impaired, he would face an unfavorable situation in which enemies from all sides were eyeing him.

After taking a deep breath, he almost squeezed a sentence out of his teeth.

"The three guards general, the three guards general, let's walk and see, the mountains don't turn around, sooner or later, one day, I will avenge these brothers who died tragically!"

The horse thief wanted to eat meat, but he never wanted to kick it on the iron plate, and at this moment where did he still have the heart to continue the love war.

Qian Tai, who was on the city wall, suddenly pointed to the distance and exclaimed:

"Commander-in-chief, look, help, help!"

Li Xin looked in the direction of Qian Tai's finger, and saw a group of cavalry coming from the south to the north. It was too far away to see their faces, but an iconic scarlet battle banner hunted in the wind, showing the world that this was a Ming Iron Horse.

"The Ming army listened to the order, lined up out of the city, and followed me and the reinforcements to attack the horse thieves!"

In addition to leaving a hundred Ming troops in the city, Li Xin decided to personally lead people out of the city to pursue, and for various considerations, it was very necessary to go to war. Qian Tai wanted to say something to dissuade him, but when the words came to his lips, he stopped.

I only heard the voices of the people under the city asking for orders to go to war with the army, and it was the soldiers who were involved in the trouble a moment ago.

The iron gate slowly rose as the iron chain was twisted, and the gate of the Acropolis was completely opened with the sound of iron shaft rubbing, and the sound of killing the enemy immediately came out of the city gate hole, straight into the sky!