Therefore, if Zhao Zhizhou of Ninghai Prefecture knew about it, he would definitely suppress this matter, secretly take back this cannon, use it as their trophy, and turn around to ask the court for credit, and there can be a cannon, which will be of great help to his career in the future, presumably Zhao Zhizhou must be very clear in his heart.

Therefore, although Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian can't look down on this cannon, Liu Wei knows better than Wu Shengtian how much value is hidden behind it.

So Liu did not order someone to wrap this cannon, found a place in the village, put it up first, and only waited for a few days for the rebels to retreat, if the county seat of Muping was not breached, then he would make a fuss with this cannon.

At dawn the next day, the rebels marched out of the camp and marched towards Xishan Village again, this time they made more adequate preparations, and got all the door panels and other things they could get their hands on outside the village, and some carts were also pushed outside the village, nailed a lot of wooden planks and other things, and some firewood was loaded on the carts, so as to resist the bullets fired from the wall of Xishan Village.

Zhang Tao personally went to the battlefield to sit in town, and drove hundreds of people and thousands of rebels under the order, surrounded Xishan Village, and began to launch a strong attack on Xishan Village.

This time, Wu Shengtian also felt some pressure, the rebels' tactics caused them some trouble, a large number of rebels hid in the cart with heavy wooden planks, pushing the cart towards Xishan Village.

The bullets fired by the soldiers were difficult to kill and wound the rebels, allowing them to hide behind the carts and gradually get closer to the trenches.

In addition, the people who were coerced, there were a lot of people who came this time, in this case, it is basically impossible to save these people and strong, and the soil bags and firewood bundles carried by the people Zhuang are very threatening to them, if they let the people run to the side of the trench and throw these things into the trench, they can soon pave a passage and open up the passage for the rebels to attack the wall.

Wu Shengtian is not a pedantic person, of course he understands the truth that Ci is not in charge of the army, at this time, of course, he will not order not to shoot the people who are forcibly coerced, who let them be born in this troubled era, life is like a mustard, since they were captured by the rebels, then they should also have the understanding of death.

Therefore, the continuous salvo of muskets of the wolf department on the wall, killed a lot of people, and never let the people get close to the wall, as for the rebels in the area of the front wall, the rebels attacked the most fiercely, a large number of rebels carried heavy wooden boards, and also superimposed the door panels, and pushed the cart to attack the area of the walled gate.

Even the wolf's tooth rifle, in the face of such a situation, was a bit weak, unable to effectively kill and injure the rebels, so that the rebels repeatedly attacked the outside of the trench.

The rebels also have some firearms in their hands, although they are not as good as the firearms of the sea wolves, but once they shoot at close range, they will also constitute a certain amount of damage, and some rebel archers are hiding behind the carts, approaching the side of the trench, and putting arrows on the wall.

Zhang Tao was ruthless this time, personally supervised the battle, and beheaded several leaders who led the army unfavorably and refused to attack to the death, forcibly pressed these rebels, and launched waves of desperate attacks.

Now that the artillery in Xishan Village has also been exposed, Wu Shengtian no longer hides it, and orders the artillery to fire back, specifically picking the enemy's dense personnel or large vehicles.

Although these carts are moving targets, because they are loaded with too many things, and there are no roads, they can't go very fast in the fields that are frozen in the field, so after approaching, it is not much difficulty for two cannons to knock on these carts.

In addition, the frozen ground also provides a good help for solid shells, after the cannonballs fall, the hard ground cannot absorb the energy of the cannonballs, and after the cannonballs land, they will jump up and fly forward like a splash, as long as there is anything or people blocking them along the way, they will be torn to pieces.

Therefore, with the help of artillery, the rebel attack was not smooth, several carts were destroyed by artillery, once the cart was shot, it would be immediately torn apart, and the wooden planks or bundles of firewood loaded on it were flying around like random arrows, and the rebels hiding behind the carts were often killed and wounded.

The rebels brought two more old-style artillery pieces and set them up outside the village to bombard the wall, this time they learned a little more and used earthen bags to find a way to build a simple bunker, trying to block the cannon bombardment of Xishan Village, but their old-style artillery has a short range, and they must be within 200 paces to be able to get the wall, this distance is for the six-pounder and twelve-pounder guns of the sea wolves, and there is no pressure to accurately aim and kill them.

Although they built rudimentary bunkers in advance, they still only fired two or three shots, and they were directly hit by the sea wolf's cannon, destroying them on the spot, and the rebel gunners who operated the guns also suffered heavy casualties at the same time.

Zhang Tao looked at the situation on the battlefield, and the muscles on his head jumped, the loss was too great! It was so big that he couldn't even bear it.

A large number of rebels were sent up, but they were quickly repulsed, and many of them were lying outside the trench, but they were never able to cross the trench, and went directly to the wall, launching a strong attack on Xishan Village.

Even if they pushed the cart outside the trench of Xishan Village, and let the archers and musketeers hiding behind the cart shoot at the soldiers of Xishan Village on the wall, they did not take advantage of it at all, often they only had one chance to show their heads, and the second time they showed their heads, they would be knocked to the ground by random guns.

Some of the rebels hid behind the door panels and bundles of firewood, pushed forward, and when they came within 100 meters of the trench, they could not stop the bullets fired from the wall, and even if they were hit, they pierced the shelter and killed them outside the stockade.

The muskets on the whole wall do not stop for a moment, constantly making a banging sound, and the wall is almost shrouded in gunsmoke, which makes the vision affected, but fortunately on this day, the north wind blows, the wind is relatively strong, and the gunpowder smoke can be blown away quickly, otherwise, these gunpowder smoke alone will cause great trouble to the sea wolf soldiers.

The two sides fought fiercely for most of the day, and the rebels paid the price of hundreds of deaths before they could barely open the passage on the three trenches.

The rebels flocked to the wall like a tide, with the help of various covers, and rushed to the bottom of the wall from the passages that had been opened.

At this time, the village soldiers finally came in handy, they prepared quite a lot of rolling wood and stones, bricks and tiles on the wall in advance, the rebels just rushed to the wall, the villagers smashed the rolling wood and stone with their heads and faces, and many rebels were smashed on the spot with their heads broken and bleeding, broken tendons and fractures, and fell under the wall.

Immediately afterwards, the villagers carried buckets of boiling water, splashed their heads, and even opened the hot skin of many rebels, and the screams were like killing pigs, and they rolled all over the ground in pain.

A rebel was desperately trying to put a ladder on the wall, but as soon as he looked up, he was poured a bucket of boiling water on his face, and his eyes were burned blind on the spot, he covered his eyes with both hands, and let out a terrible scream, but after a while, his whole face was covered with a layer of transparent blisters, and he looked like a ghost, he screamed and crashed around, and plunged into the trench, when he stopped screaming, because he was pierced by the sharp stake in the trench, and his body was pierced on the spot, and his life was completely ended.

However, the boiling water was poured down, and it fell to the ground for a while, and it was frozen by the extremely low temperature, and the whole wall was at the foot of the wall, and soon accumulated into a layer of ice that did not leave enough, and the boiling water was poured down, and the ice melted, and then it was frozen again, and it was even more slippery and untenable.

Although many rebels barely rushed under the wall, they immediately fell into a rolling gourd, unable to stand on their feet, and climbed one by one, wolves were unbearable.

There were even some rebels, after falling, slipped out on the ice, seeing that they were about to fall into the trench and were stabbed to death by a sharp stake, in a panic, they screamed again and again, desperately trying to grab anything that could be grasped, but accidentally grabbed the legs of their companions, not only did they not stop, but even their companions were dragged down, and they fell into the deep trench and were strung together into sugar gourds.

The rebels are also desperate, desperately want to erect a long ladder, climb the wall, but the ice below is very slippery, even if the long ladder is erected, the feet are unstable, after the person climbs up, the following slips, the long ladder will slip down, and the people above will fall on the hard ground, and there are a lot of people who vomit blood on the spot.

The original siege mode was that some people approached the city wall and erected a long ladder to attack the city, and some people wanted to release arrows and guns outside the trench or moat to suppress the defenders on the walled wall and provide cover for the attackers.

But the rifles of the sea wolves were so sharp that the archers who came to the outside of the trench were always pressed and beaten, and they died when they appeared.

As a result, the people who approached the wall could not get effective cover, and the villagers on the wall, without even worrying too much, leaned out of the battlement, threw arrows downward, threw bricks and stones, or poured boiling water.

The rebels attacked until the afternoon, but they were not able to attack the wall, but under the wall, they suffered heavy casualties, covered with corpses all over the ground, and many rebels fell into the trench, and were pierced alive by sharp piles.

Wu Shengtian didn't even let the soldiers use grenades, but he actually resisted the rebels' attacks again and again, and the rebels' corpses were all over the place.

Zhang Tao couldn't believe that the soldiers of this small Xishan Village could have such combat power and withstand such a fierce offensive, although he was angry and scolded, but he was helpless, and when the battle was in the afternoon, he almost took turns to send out the troops, but he still failed to capture Xishan Village, taking stock, the number of casualties under his command was at least more than 500 people, or even more, and if they continued to fight, these rebel soldiers would probably not do it.

If there are too many dead people, the rest of the people will be resentful, and if they don't do it well, they will mutiny, and it is not necessarily impossible to mutiny again.

Looking at the resentful eyes of his subordinates, Zhang Tao had no choice but to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops, which ended the day's fierce battle.