"Qu ......" There was a faint sound in the distance, as if it was a whistle, and if you listened carefully, you couldn't hear it again, as if it had never sounded. The pillar of iron sprang up from the ground and asked loudly to the sides, "Did you hear the whistle?" ”

"Back to the captain, no."

"Nope."

……。

A false alarm? Tiezhu exhaled softly, patted his heart, and slowly sat down again.

I casually took the musket leaning against the battlement wall, this was already the musket that I had changed once. I remember the first time I got the musket, it was heavier than the current one, and it was rougher, not like the current musket, it was shiny and shiny, and it felt comfortable to touch.

The iron pillar gently stroked the musket in his hand, like caressing the bride who was about to be married.

When his hand touched the sharp sword on the musket, a smile appeared at the corner of Tie Zhu's mouth. This small sword is also too small, like a dagger, and more like an ornament worn by the prince and princess around his waist. After the iron pillar got it, it was never used, except for daily grinding and frequent training assassination, the iron pillar did not know if it could really kill people on the battlefield.

However, Tie Zhu was very satisfied with the name of this small sword, "Army Thorn", but Tie Zhu felt that he really had to wait until he used this military thorn, thinking about it, the war was no longer possible. With the swift speed of the Liao cavalry, it is impossible for the Ming army to have the opportunity to use the military spur to fight, at that time, the most suitable function of this military spur is to commit suicide.

Don't use it. The iron pillar prayed that this slender little sword made him both love and hate.

The hand slowly descended the body of the musket, and the shooting performance of the iron pillar was undoubtedly excellent. His parents did not give him a strong physique, and the water and soil of the south did not give him natural riding skills, but they gave him the talent to shoot after all.

The iron pillar has the honor of being the first in the shooting competition of Yanyun 80,000 Ming Army. Fifteen zhang, thirty rounds and twenty-six results, which is enough to make Chen Yanzheng look at him with admiration.

If it weren't for the iron pillar, he wouldn't be able to ride a horse, if it wasn't for the lack of strength of the iron pillar, if it wasn't for the iron pillar being illiterate,...... Chen Yanzheng may have already promoted Tie Zhu to the position of lieutenant.

But there was not a single lieutenant in the Ming army who could not read the map, and all the officers below the command were from the military departments of Jinling and Tanzhou schools. No one dared to disobey the order of Baili Wuji, at least in the Ming army, or rather. No one dares to disobey openly.

After all, Chen Yanzheng still promoted Tie Zhu to the position of gang leader, but no one in Yan Yunming's army was dissatisfied, even if he looked down on Tie Zhu's soldiers who couldn't ride horses, they had to admire Tie Zhu's shooting skills. Thirty rounds and twenty-six results. For musketeers, it was a luxury, and the standard for Ming soldiers to shoot was 16 out of 30.

Thinking of this, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Tie Zhu's mouth again, this honor was brought to him by the musket, so he cherished this musket. Far more than himself.

What Tie Zhu didn't understand was that since the big war was imminent. Why did Chen Yanzheng order the demolition of several artillery pieces that had already been erected on the city wall? It is said that the artillery was all collected and transported to Qianju. Tie Zhu really can't figure it out, Qianzhou is just a small state, close to Bohai Bay, adjacent to Yuguan, and the sea to the east, is it that the imperial court is worried that it will not be able to hold it, afraid that the artillery will fall into the hands of the Liao army, and wants to retreat early?

A trace of uneasiness rose in Tiezhu's heart.

No, how could it be possible to retreat, isn't the emperor in Yanzhou? If you want to retreat, how can the emperor come to Yanzhou? ……。

The hour has passed, and the hour is coming.

Tie Zhu raised his head and yawned, it was almost time to change the guard, and he could continue to go back to sleep, but hopefully, the Liao army was all diarrhea and couldn't stand up.

"Qu ......" This time the voice became clear, and Tie Zhu looked left and right blankly, could it be another hallucination?

"Qu ...... Qu ...... "The voice came again, and it wasn't one, it was several, no, dozen, no, hundreds of voices were connected, and it seemed to be one voice in the distance.

After many years of experience in the army, the iron pillar almost bounced off the ground and shouted: "Enemy attack...... ”

Immediately, the iron pillar stretched his head out of the battlement, the fog had thinned, and in the blur, a wriggling figure outside the Great Wall was getting closer and closer, stretching horizontally for several miles, and growing like a serpentine approaching horizontally.

"The Liao army is coming, be on alert. Quick report. Iron Pillar shouted hysterically, at this moment, he knew that war was really coming.

And unlike in the past, this battle must be a bloody battle, because Tie Zhu obviously felt that the scale of the Liao army was different from the past, and the sense of oppression that the Liao army was getting closer and closer was also different from the past. This battle was tragic.

With the shouting of the iron pillars, a series of shouts sounded one after another on the Great Wall, and dozens of soldiers rushed to the garrison tent a mile away to report the news.

The Liao army was slowly approaching, not accelerating, nor stopping, like a moving iron plate, slowly pressing towards the Great Wall. There was no formation, no tactics, just a move forward, except for the occasional whistle of contact, and only the sound of horses' hooves.

The suffocating feeling of oppression made Tie Zhu feel unable to speak again.

In the garrison camp tent a mile away, countless Ming soldiers rushed out and rushed up the city wall under the loud shouts of officials at all levels.

The Liao army stopped three miles away from the city wall, and the Ming soldiers who were on nervous alert did not understand why the Liao army did not attack directly.

After a while, the soldiers of the Ming army understood why the Liao army did not attack directly.

Behind the tide of the Liao army, countless black dots emerged, more and more, closer and closer, and bigger and bigger.

"Catapult ......." The sharp-eyed Ming soldiers were the first to shout out in horror.

In fact, the catapult Ming army has had, and it has long been eliminated, the catapult is quite powerful, but the hit rate is extremely low, if you let a soldier stand within the range of the catapult, let it throw, ten rounds can hit one shot, that is the soldier mildew home.

Catapults are inconvenient to transport, and have not yet been developed to the point where they can be disassembled and assembled. Although the Liao State has plundered a lot of skilled generals in the Central Plains in the past few decades, it is not easy to imitate these catapults because of their congenital deficiencies, and they cannot really develop ordnance, and it is not easy to imitate these catapults.

Although the hit rate of catapults is extremely low, if thousands of catapults are launched together, the probability of hitting will increase by tens of thousands of times, which is not as simple as one plus one, but increases geometrically.

This is also the reason why the soldiers of the Ming army shouted in horror. (To be continued......)