The tall cannon body is made of four thigh-thick log tenons, as stable as Mount Tai, and the long barrel and short arm hang a huge stone basket at one end, and the long arm is thinner and thinner, and a leather spoon for stone cannonballs is tied to the tip.

The fastest construction of the battery, the gun body has been built, and the winch is already being installed.

"We can't wait any longer, if we wait for all four forts to be built, it will be troublesome. Lin Xiao looked at the embryonic gun carriage in the distance and said worriedly.

"But the time is not yet ripe for the wind to change from north to south until the first day of the month. Niu Zhen looked up at the moon anxiously, and at this time, a full moon had completely jumped out of the ridge in the distance, shining brightly, and casting a layer of silver light on the earth.

"Then stop him first. As soon as Lin Xiao finished speaking, a strong bow had already appeared in his hand.

"Is it through the clouds?!" Niu said in shock.

"Yes, I'm going to try its limits today. Lin Xiao put a light arrow that was taken out of the spatial ring at the same time and put it on the bowstring that pierced the clouds.

A strong bow with light arrows is the best way to shoot far.

Lin Xiao's body was slightly heavy, his arrow steps were steady, his ape arms were lightly relaxed, and he pulled the clouds into a full moon, and the arrow pointed obliquely at the sky, not moving at all.

Niu Zhen also held his breath, and the boss's pair of bull's eyes widened.

There was a crisp sound of "ding", the bowstring shook sharply, and the light arrow on the string had disappeared.

After three breaths, Lin Xiao withdrew his gaze from a distance, nodded slightly, and said, "This arrow shot a thousand steps, and at the same time deviated fifty steps to the north. ”

"Shot a thousand steps?" Niu Zhen was shocked, although his eyes were big, his eyesight could not be compared with a tiger clan like Lin Xiao, and he couldn't see the final landing point of the arrow at all.

"Yes, the southeast wind is blowing at this time, so the arrow took advantage of the wind, and it was two hundred paces away, but it was also fifty paces off, and look at the next arrow. After Lin Xiao finished speaking, he took another light arrow, pulled away through the clouds, and fine-tuned the angle and direction.

On the fastest turret, a jackal warrior was climbing the high turret and struggling to crack the tenon at the joint, and there was a noise of trumpets and percussions all around.

Suddenly, he raised his head suspiciously, and just now, he seemed to hear a slight sound of breaking the air passing nearby.

For a moment, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and then lowered his head and swung his heavy wooden hammer.

As soon as he swung the wooden hammer more than ten times, he suddenly shook his whole body, his body froze as if he had been pointed, and then he fell from the high gun carriage with one hand.

With a "boom", the jackal warrior slammed into the ground, and the wooden hammer in his hand fell to his side with a "clang".

The jackal next to him was startled and hurriedly surrounded him, and when he saw it clearly, he exclaimed.

I saw that there was a long feather arrow stuck in his neck, which had already penetrated, and his eyes were wide open, with an expression of disbelief.

"There's a dark arrow!" the gnolls were in confusion.

"Ahh

This time the nest was blown up, and several other gnolls who were crawling on the gun carriage jumped down one after another, and jumping down from a height of several feet was not a joke, and there was a lot of screaming.

The gnolls under the gun carriage bent down one after another, but they didn't know where to hide, because they didn't know where the arrows were coming from.

"Shieldman!" someone shouted.

A group of jackal warriors with swords and shields in hand galloped up and set up shields in front of the four turrets.

In this way, the pace of construction is greatly slowed down.

And in front of the jackal storm that had just come ashore, a shield was also set up in an instant.

At this moment, several pairs of eyes were fixed on this place.

The position of the enemy's commander-in-chief has been revealed.

"Brother Lin Xiao, good archery! Niu Zhen was pleasantly surprised, he didn't expect that the Cloud Piercing he made could exert such power.

"It's Brother Niu's ability to make bows. Lin Xiao just shot an arrow and caught another one.

"I just made it form, but you gave it a soul. Niu Zhen suddenly said in a slumpy manner.

Lin Xiao smiled dumbly, and just wanted to speak, but suddenly there was a surprise on his face, and he shouted: "The north wind is rising!"

"Sure enough!" Niu Zhen dipped his middle finger in his mouth, and then reached into the air to try, "The time has come!"

Suddenly, two rockets burst into the sky from the Seven Star Fort.

As if receiving a signal, at the junction of the northern edge of the Cuiping River Valley and the mountains, a little fire suddenly lit up, which was particularly eye-catching in the night.

"Who is setting the fire?" Before the jackal's words fell, countless fires lit up along the northern edge of the entire Cuiping River Valley, forming a complete arc.

In a few more breaths, with the help of the stronger and stronger north winds, these ignitions had become a line of fire and rolled southward.

"Jackal, take your subordinates to take a look, and if the enemy sets fire, kill them all. The jackal ordered loudly.

As soon as the words fell, nearly a thousand jackal warriors rushed towards the line of fire.

The rice stalks and leaves that have withered and yellowed are the best igniters, and the full ears of rice are extremely fire-resistant and will not burn out for a while, so the line of fire that burns more and more is not actually a line, but a thick wall.

The wall of fire was already ten zhang wide, and as the north wind spread rapidly to the south, it formed an encirclement of fire, which continued to shrink.

The heat wave rushed towards the nearly 1,000 jackal warriors who were rushing in with the strong wind, so that they could not get close to the wall of fire at all, and had to retreat again and again with the approaching wall of fire.

What made them even more unbelievable was that through the red wall of fire, they faintly saw the cold light of a sword.

"There's an enemy army behind!" a jackal warrior shouted.

That's right, behind the wall of fire, more than 2,000 Niu warriors are slowly advancing in the footsteps of the wall of fire, with swords and guns blazing.

And between them, there are also unusually tall and burly bear warriors, which are intimidating.

The bodies of these bull and bear warriors are covered with thick bamboo armor made of bamboo pieces.

These bamboo armors could not withstand the smashing of heavy weapons, but they were extremely resistant to the stabbing of sharp weapons, and were very effective against most of the jackal soldiers armed with light sharp knives and guns.

The jackal warriors clamored, but were forced back by the heat.

"Rush over!" shouted the leader of the Jackals, waving his sword.

But no one dared to rush to the wall of fire.

The wolf clan was already afraid of fire, and although the bright moon hanging high made them courageous, it still couldn't overwhelm this natural fear.

"Ahh

"Those who retreat from this line will be killed!" the jackal commanded loudly, and more than 100 personal soldiers raised their guillotine knives and lined up in a line.

All the jackal warriors stopped retreating, weighing, and hesitating.

Finally, some particularly brave jackal warriors shouted wildly, covered their faces with their arms, and pounced on the wall of fire.

Unfortunately, the wall of fire was ten feet wide, and it was not a circus fire ring, and it was all right as soon as it rushed through the thin layer of flames.

The fire testers screamed and rolled in the wall of fire, turning into wriggling balls of fire, none of which penetrated the wall of fire.

"Let the wolf charge!" shouted the jackal, swinging his sword.

The golden jackals that accompanied the battle did not hesitate at all, and rushed towards the wall of fire like arrows from the string.

The speed of the giant jackal worked, and ten zhang was only two vertical distances for them, and they rushed over in the blink of an eye.

Even so, the giant jackals that broke out of the wall of fire still turned into a ball of fire, because their oily golden retrievers were too easy to catch fire, and as soon as they broke out of the wall of fire, before they could distinguish between the east and west, they were waved into two pieces by the successive ox warriors, completely freed from the severe pain of being burned.

But the giant jackals still went forward one after another, howling all the way from all over the army to the line of fire, and then set themselves into the wall of fire, turning into balls of fireball and pounced on the Niu warriors.

The encirclement of the wall of fire became smaller and smaller, and more and more giant jackals came from the impact, but only countless persistent fire spots were left on the charred black ground where the wall of fire passed, and the air was scorched.

"Father, the situation is not good, should you withdraw to the south bank first?" Behind a shield, Jackal whispered to Jackal.

"No!" Jackal said categorically: "It is most dangerous to retreat when the army is unstable, and if you are not careful, it will become a rout, and if the Niu people take the opportunity to kill, the loss will be great." Quickly set up the fort and capture the Seven Star Fort, and naturally you can avoid this fire. ”

"Yes, I'm going to supervise the work myself. The jackal turned away under the cover of several shields.

Finally, under severe urging, after more than a dozen lives were lost by cold arrows, two forts were finally built.

"Shoot now!" ordered the jackal.

"Rolling and rolling ......" With the heart-wrenching sound of a winch, the two gun carriages were loaded, and the hanging baskets full of stones were raised high.

"Put!"

With an order, the gunner suddenly put down the mechanism.

Filled with stones, high above, the hanging basket weighing 10,000 catties fell suddenly, driving the long arm at the other end to rise high like lightning, and the leather spoon at the end of the arm contained a stone ball weighing dozens of catties and the size of a human head, which was roughly beaten.

"Boom!"

The stone cannon ball did not fly out, and with a loud bang, the sharply falling hanging basket pulled across the entire gun carriage, and the huge force made the wood and stone fly sideways, and there was a scream.

The worst thing was that the gunner, before he even had time to scream, was smashed into a pile of meat by the huge cannon carriage that collapsed.

"What's going on?!" the jackal, who got up from the ground in embarrassment, was furious.

"II...... Second general, the time is too rushed, and you have to guard against hidden arrows, so the tenon connecting the gun carriage is not ...... Didn't knock it to death!" the cannon commander of this cannon crawled forward with a sad face, and his face was bloody.

"Slash!" the jackal screamed in frustration.

"The second general spares his life! the second general spares his life!" the artillery commander was dragged down by his own soldiers who were like wolves and tigers, and waved two paragraphs.

"You guys, let go!" Jackal shouted to order another battery.

"Yes...... Yes, put!" the gun commander waved his hand in fear.

The gunner gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and slammed down the mechanism.

With a muffled sound of "whew", dozens of pounds of stone balls were thrown high, like a bolt of lightning, carrying the sound of breaking the sky, flying towards the Seven Star Castle.

"Boom!"

In an instant, the stone ball flew over a distance of 800 paces, crossed the trench and the bamboo wall, and smashed on the ground of the camp, splashing up several feet of dirt, leaving a pit more than a meter deep, and the power was terrifying.

"Oh!" the thousands of Ox Clan warriors who were already waiting on the bamboo wall exclaimed in shock, and among them, there were more than a hundred Pig Clan warriors.

"Roar!" Seeing that the cannon had been successfully fired, the gnolls cheered and their morale was greatly boosted.

"The gun is lowered by one inch, and the gun truss is moved two inches to the left!" the gun commander chanted.

"Boom!"

The second stone shell hit the bamboo wall impartially.

The two-zhang thick bamboo wall is like a thin piece of paper, which is shattered by stone cannonballs, and the fragments of bamboo fly in all directions, leaving a hole as big as a wellhead.

On the bamboo wall, several Niu warriors screamed in pain and fell off the wall, countless sharp bamboo fragments stuck into their bodies like sharp blades.

"Attack that hole at all costs, and from there you must tear through the enemy's defenses and storm the camp!" ordered the jackal in a loud voice.

At this time, two more batteries were also ready.

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