"This ......"

"Oh no, fooled!"

The retreat route was blocked, and the hundreds of officers and soldiers who had already entered the city were suddenly shocked. Mo Guohao didn't expect that the thieves would really dare to use deception and trick them into the city. After a brief panic, he immediately looked at Sun Tian, the "inner response" who contacted the official army. However, these people had already taken advantage of the chaos and secretly ran away, about to disappear into the darkness.

"Catch them!"

Mo Guohao, who was furious because he was deceived, immediately ordered his men to chase after him.

However, at this very moment, a big change occurred.

With a neat shout, a large number of rebels appeared on the rooftops of the city behind them and on the north and south sides of the entrance avenue, each holding torches, illuminating the dark night as if it were day. With the help of this firelight, the chasing officers and soldiers noticed that the intersection in the darkness in the distance had been sealed by a modified stone wall, and had become a terrain similar to "Urn City". Sun Tian, who had fled, grabbed the rope thrown from it before the pursuers arrived, calmly turned over and fled behind the safe stone wall.

The cavalry, which had stopped in panic because of the sudden change, was also fired upon by archers on the roofs of shops on both sides of the road.

Although the cavalry wore protective gear and most of the arrows were useless, some arrows entered from unprotected places, killing several people. Some cavalrymen tried to rush out of this distance, but they didn't notice that the stone slab in the middle of the road in the middle of the road was greased, and they also hid and pulled the tripwire, and they tripped over it accidentally. The rest of the cavalry, including Ji Ning, immediately panicked.

"It's really troublesome now......"

In the chaos, Mo Guohao couldn't help frowning as he looked at the greatly changed terrain around him.

He had been to Yicheng once and had an impression of the terrain inside the East City Gate. But now, this qiē has been transformed beyond recognition. The thieves took advantage of the houses on both sides of the street and the walls behind them to seal them all down. In such a narrow terrain, it is difficult to spread the formation of officers and soldiers, and the cavalry is even more useless.

Six hundred officers and soldiers have become turtles in the urn.

"My lord, what should I do?"

The pro-soldiers next to him tried their best to help calm the panicked officers and soldiers, and at the same time urged Mo Guohao to make up his mind quickly.

"Don't panic!"

Mo Guohao shouted, calmed down the surrounding soldiers for the time being, half analyzed, half comforted them, and said, "Didn't you see it? Although the thieves surrounded this place, they did not dare to attack it, proving that their strength was not good. Jiang Hongwen and Lao Guang, each of you led a brigade to line up on the north and south sides to prevent thieves from rushing and killing from the flanks; Zhong Geng, you lead a large group of soldiers to try to recapture the city gate and raise the iron gate. The thieves will take us for a while, as long as there is no barrier to stop us, we can definitely get out of the way. ”

Although the official army of Longshan Mansion is a second-line local army, it is also a regular emperor after all. After a brief panic, he quickly calmed down under Mok Guohao's orders. After all, Mo Guohao's analysis is very reasonable, although they are small in number and have been ambushed, their combat power far exceeds that of the thief army. The fact that the thieves did not dare to attack and fight is enough to prove this.

The only thing that could threaten the officers and soldiers seemed to be the thirty foot archers on the rooftops on either side.

However, the threat is nowhere near as big as it seems.

These regular soldiers in Long Son Province all wore armor. Although this distance leather armor can't stop the shot of bows and arrows, it is difficult to kill people with one arrow under the intention of the officers and soldiers to protect their heads. Unless you happen to hit the vital point, you are protected by leather armor, and most of them are injured but not killed.

What's more, the officers and soldiers are not without archers.

In the military system of the Empire, the light cavalry of the main battle unit was equipped with bows and arrows because they often had to fight against the Varspurs and Lena Rangers. The local vigilant troops only need to clear out thieves and occasionally kill outless rebels, so the light cavalry does not set such high requirements. However, if there are those who can ride and shoot, they are also allowed to bring their own bows and arrows. In this cavalry brigade commanded by Ji Ning, there are more than a dozen people who can shoot on horseback.

These dozen men, together with the two teams of infantry archers in the light infantry, began to shoot at the archers of the anti-thieves on the roofs on both sides.

Whether it is Mo Guohao or Ji Ning, they all want to deal with the main archers of this team of thieves first! Although the other party is condescending and occupies the terrain, the officers and soldiers have armor, so it is more advantageous to say.

With such an adjustment, the originally flustered officers and soldiers have stabilized.

However, Mok soon discovered that these thieves were far more powerful than he thought. Seeing that the archers of the official army began to counterattack, the thieves, who had been prepared, immediately sent a group of soldiers armed with large wooden shields to protect the infantry bow battalion. In this way, the archers of the thief army are almost no threat, and they can calmly pick the archers in the official army to snipe. After a few rounds of shooting, the thief's wooden shield was shot into a hedgehog, but there were not a few injured people. On the contrary, it was the archers of the official army, who were shot five or six in succession.

"Steady, steady!"

Seeing that the army's morale was a little unstable, Mo Guohao shouted hoarsely, and urged Zhong Geng to move away from the boulder, so that he could attack the city and pull up the iron gate.

This decision prompted Chen Wu to make up his mind to use a stone thrower.

The heavy stone bullets were loaded into the grenadier belt, and the shirtless rebel soldiers, with the strength of milk, began to turn the winch desperately.

Soon, a sharp whistling sound was heard in the night sky in the distance.

The sound of breaking through the air was completely different from that of the arrows, and it sounded a little unfamiliar. The anxious Mo Guohao subconsciously looked over, only to see a stone bullet weighing several catties in a beautiful arc, which was violently projectile into the officers and soldiers near the city gate hole.

For a while, the screams were repeated!

A three-pound stone projectile, thrown from more than 100 meters away, has the kinetic energy that can even smash a hole on the stone slab on the ground, let alone fall on a person. Even if the officers and soldiers wear armor, they can effectively defend against bows and arrows, but they can't protect against this terrible stone bullet. It doesn't matter where it falls, it's immediately a blur of flesh and blood. The unlucky ones even had their heads shattered, and blood and brains flew everywhere. The Ming and Huang banner of the Qianyuan Empire held by one of them was broken by a stone bullet and slowly fell to the ground covered with blood.

However, the casualties have not stopped.

The stone bullets thrown by the catapult are simply polished, and even if they fall to the ground and hit the wall, they will still roll and eject, causing secondary damage to the dense crowd!

Due to the test firing calibration carried out in advance, the accuracy of these stone projectiles is amazing. Just one salvo of two catapults killed and wounded more than a dozen people. The light infantry brigade led by Zhong Geng was instantly empty.

This terrifying blow made almost all the nearby officers and soldiers stunned.

As the captain of the official army, Zhong Geng was lucky to survive the blow just now. However, his two right-hand men were not spared, one was hit in the chest by a stone bullet, and his sternum was broken and he could not survive. The other one was lucky, his shoulder was hit by the stone bullet that was ejected, and although there was a crisp bone cracking sound, the person was still alive, but his face was pale, and he sat on the ground in horror and wailed.

These government troops of Longshan Mansion have not even suppressed ordinary thieves, let alone the blow of the stone thrower. It's a bit unfamiliar with this kind of mass killing weapon, and many people are still stunned, not understanding what just happened.

The officers and soldiers were stupid for a short time, but Chen Wu's righteous army did not stop.

The rebels reloaded as fast as they could, and with all their strength, began to twist the winch again.

When the special rope was tightened to the extreme, the rebel soldiers who worked together let go.

As the officers and soldiers listened in horror, the devil-like whistling sound sounded again, and only a few seconds later, it smashed down, killing and wounding more than a dozen officers and soldiers again, and the severed limbs and stumps flew to the ground.

At this moment, Zhong Geng's subordinates could no longer bear it and fell into a hysterical collapse.

"Stone thrower!"

"It's a stone thrower!"

Mo Guohao's face was pale, his eyes almost protruded from his sockets, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

This gang of thieves knew that they had false news and tricked them in with fraud, and there were at least two stone throwers!

The accuracy of the projectile is even more amazing!

"It can't be!"

On the other side, the cavalry commanders Ji Ning and Master Rong also shouted out loudly, and it was difficult to accept this reality.

If the thieves had put the stone throwers on the city long ago, where would they dare to fight the ideas of these thieves. Even at the beginning, they would not send troops, but directly reported the news to the county. After the shock, Ji Ning quickly reacted that these thieves were deliberately hiding clumsy, that is, they were seducing Longshan Mansion to send troops, and they were designed to eat them in one bite!