Seeing that the rebels withdrew and camped far away and no longer launched an attack, Wu Shengtian also ordered the alert to be lifted, let the soldiers and Xiangyong stay on duty, and the rest of the personnel went down to eat and rest, and Liu Wei also ordered to add dinner tonight, let everyone eat a little meat, and reward today's exhibitors, especially the gunners, who raised their eyebrows and breathed a good sigh.

Moreover, Liu Wei gave a glass of wine to all the combatants today, everyone who did not drink much, but it could make people relax, not make mistakes, and sleep well at night, because they understood that there would probably be a fierce battle tomorrow.

As for the rebels, they were depressed to death from top to bottom all night, Zhang Tao convened his subordinates to discuss the matter, and repeatedly cheered up his subordinates, hoping to boost their morale.

This time, he came over with so many people in a hurry, originally thought that after coming over, he should be very easy to capture and take Xishan Village, and during the day, he also amplified his words, claiming to stay in Xishan Village at night, but he ended up in such a battle situation, which made him feel like he had been slapped in the face.

And Zhang Tao was ruthless, he said cruel words, fight again tomorrow, if anyone does not obey the order and step forward bravely, he will have someone's head, after all the rebels are ordered, they will go down and slander, but they don't have the courage to say no words, they can only wait for dawn and lead their troops to play with their lives.

But that night, something happened that made them even more depressed, they originally thought that the villagers of Xishan Village did not dare to come out, but the villagers of Xishan Village really came out, they didn't know what they had gotten, and in the middle of the night, from behind a mound near the rebels, they suddenly began to release.

A dozen fiery things rose into the air, drawing a line of light in the air, most of which plunged headlong into the rebel camp, and then a series of violent explosions occurred, which made the rebels who had just slept like chickens and dogs, and they were busy for a while, and when they were sent out to search the place where these things flew out, they found nothing, only some burning marks on the ground, and messy horseshoe prints.

It turned out that before the rear of the sea wolf to Xishan Village in winter, more than 100 rockets were transported, these rockets have a long tail, and after ignition, they can be shot two or three miles away by relying on the propulsion of gunpowder, and the warhead is a warhead filled with more than a pound of refined black powder, and a circle of iron is cast with glue around the warhead, which can produce quite a lot of fragments after the explosion, killing and injuring enemy personnel.

These rockets are made of simple materials, simple technology, and low accuracy, but the range is not short, and the power is not small, although the accuracy is very poor, but it is very suitable for harassing the enemy.

Usually these rockets are stored, but this time they were taken out by Wu Shengtian and handed over to the scouts at night, so that they could sneak near the enemy camp on horseback with more than a dozen rockets, and give such a guy to the rebel camp.

Only about half of these rockets really entered the camp, and the damage caused was not much, only a small number of rebels were killed and wounded, but one rocket fell into the enemy's horse pen in favor of death, and many war horses were killed and injured on the spot, and some other war horses were frightened, rushed out of the horse ring, and galloped around in the camp.

The losses caused by these frightened horses are far more than the number of people killed and injured by rocket bombing, a large number of frightened horses rampaged through the camp, knocking over quite a lot of camp tents, and trampling on the rebels who fell asleep in the camp tents, and trampling on them to death and trampling on a lot, after some camp tents were overturned, in order to keep out the cold, they lit a charcoal basin, and as a result, the camp tents were set on fire, and some rebels were blinded by the camp tents, and they could not get out of the camp tents, and as a result, after the camp tents were set on fire, they ignited the fire, and burned to death and burned many rebels.

The rebel camp suddenly became a mess, people neighed and cheered, and there were clusters of firelight, which illuminated the enemy camp everywhere, and the rebels were in chaos, tossing for half the night, before they could be considered to be stable again.

But they didn't even find a single enemy, which really made the rebels really depressed again, and the angry Zhang Tao stood in the big tent, scolded, and ordered the faction to go out to find those damn enemies who attacked them secretly, and skinned them and cramped them, and broke their bodies into thousands of pieces.

Now this Zhang Tao is completely put away the contempt for Xishan Village, before he came, he never thought that this Xishan Village was so difficult to deal with, the firearms in the hands of the other party are so sharp, even they are known as the Ming army with the most firearms, can not be matched, and the opponent is cunning and abnormal, full of miracles, make full use of the advantages of their firearms, today at the end of the day, slapped him several big mouths.

But when they reacted and sent people out to chase and kill the sneak attacker, they found that the sneak attacker had already fled and ran back to Xishan Village.

After a while, Zhang Tao received another message, and he almost didn't make his nose crooked.

The Hongyi cannon they had destroyed during the day, because they thought it was useless, simply left it outside Xishan Village and ignored it.

But after they sent out Ye Buhui to go around, they unexpectedly found that the barrel of the Hongyi cannon they had discarded outside the village was gone.

It turned out that after Xishan Village went into the night, he actually sent people out of the village, secretly touched the battlefield during the day, tied the barrel of the Hongyi cannon with a rope, and then secretly dragged it back to Xishan Village.

With such a big operation, the rebels didn't hear a single movement, and when they found out, the barrel had been dragged back to the stockade by Xishan Village.

The rebels were tossed in this way, and after a night, they were even more lacking in energy, and they were depressed to death.

Wu Shengtian was different from Liu, dressed thick and sturdy, standing inside the walled gate, illuminated by a large number of torches, and bowed his head to inspect the captured Hongyi cannon.

As they judged during the day, the caliber of this Hongyi cannon was about the same as the twelve-pounder cannon they were equipped with, slightly larger, but it was not as good as the eighteen-pounder gun.

The length of the cannon is about two meters, the barrel is very thick, and the shape is completely imitated Western-style naval guns, which belong to the category of cannons or half-snake cannons, but the casters are too far away from the guns made by the sea wolves, and the surface treatment process is also very rough.

In addition, the personnel who were sent to steal the cannon also picked up a few solid shells discarded by the rebels, these solid shells were also iron cast shells, the craftsmanship could not be considered too bad, and the shells seemed to have been polished after casting, and the casting seams were polished off to make them more round.

But when these shells are actually filled into the muzzle, it can be found that the tolerance of these shells is very large, some cannonballs are stuffed into the bore, and there is a large gap between the cannonball and the bore, and some cannonballs are difficult to stuff into the bore, and they must be polished with a file on the spot in order to be loaded into the bore.

Therefore, the actual firing range of this cannon is probably not as far as ideal, and the accuracy is needless to say, and it is not comparable with the Seawolf's artillery.

But on the whole, the casting level of this cannon is still more than the old guns of the Ming Dynasty before, and the design and mold of the cannon are also more scientific, gradually thickening from front to back, which is more in line with the different internal chamber pressures of different parts when the gun is fired.

This should be regarded as the credit of Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, so that the Ming Dynasty obtained a relatively sharp firearm in the north, but the irony is that the Ming Dynasty spent so much silver, as well as manpower and material resources, and gathered a lot of skilled craftsmen and knowledgeable people in the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Shengtian and Liu are different from this, they are a little embarrassed, after careful inspection, the quality of this cannon is OK, although the gun carriage was destroyed by the explosion, the barrel was thrown far away, but the whole did not appear cracks or other damage, but when the front sight landed, it was damaged, this cannon was erected by the soldiers with a pole, poured some hot water into it, and no cracks were found on the barrel, indicating that this gun should be remanufactured after the gun carriage can continue to be used.

If it were someone else, he would definitely take this Hongyi cannon as a treasure, but now in the eyes of the Sea Wolf people, it is not so popular, after all, the cannon in their hands is much easier to use than this, and this Hongyi cannon is stupid and stupid, even if it can be repaired, it will be quite troublesome to recast shells for it.

However, it can't be said that they are busy in the middle of the night, and it is useless to drag this cannon back, this cannon at least has great economic value, of course, it does not mean that it is smashed to recycle iron, this cannon is not rare for them, but some people are rare, if they contact some large households, it is estimated that these large households will definitely be willing to pay a high price for the acquisition.

Even if they sell this cannon to the government, it is estimated that the officials will be happy to pay a high price to buy back this cannon, of course, the official will definitely not take back this cannon openly, because this cannon represents a very important significance.

They are definitely unwilling to openly withdraw the cannons from Xishan Village, because this is similar to slapping them in the face, Xishan Village is just a village fort, and they can actually defeat the rebels and capture the rebels' Hongyi cannons, but as officials, they still have officers and soldiers under them, but they can only be blocked in the city by the rebels and dare not show their heads.

If this matter spreads, it is estimated that those officials in the imperial court who are full of food and have nothing to do will drown them with saliva.