The fire in Liguanzhen burned for seven days, and now it finally stopped burning. Everything that could be burned had been burned, and now all that was left was charred stone, charcoal with curling smoke.

Stilwell took the musket and fired a bullet downward, which hit a retreating Han Eight Banner soldier. Stilwell could clearly see a cloud of red smoke explode on the guy's back.

The firearm in his hand was thrown to the ground, and the auxiliary soldiers immediately picked it up and quickly began to reload.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" ……！

The enemy artillery was bombarding again, and a cannonball landed under the city walls, sending the splatters of earth into the air before raining down on Stilwell's body.

This is the enemy covering the infantry retreat, which has already launched three attacks this morning. It is estimated that I can stop at noon, after all, those who are soldiers also have to eat. Fighting a war is a hard work, how can you do it if you don't have enough to eat.

The black hand took out a white-flour steamed bun from his arms, and the white and chubby steamed bun was grabbed by his fingers, and there were immediately a few black marks.

This steamed bun was sent down in the morning, and from the dawn of the morning to the present, Stilwell has not stopped. When you bite into the mouth, the smell of sweat, earth, and gunsmoke are all mixed into salty. The skin of this steamed bun has been soaked with sweat, and it looks like it is mushy in the mouth.

Southerners like to eat rice, not steamed buns. But there is no way, only a basket of steamed buns for easy transportation. His auxiliaries were cooks, and they were all sent to the city walls. No one has the time to fly you to knead rice balls!

A cannonball hit the city walls, and the whole wall shook a little. Gravel chips flew wildly, and Stilwell hurriedly used his body to protect the steamed buns. That's all for lunch, and it's stuck to the stone foam, and the taste in your mouth is too unpleasant.

The city wall of Li Guanzhen is said to have been built by the Goryeo people during the Tang Dynasty, and when Li Xiao stationed troops here, he put a layer of granite stone on the outside. The artillery of the Tartars against such a wall would only be effective if it was fired at close range.

There was artillery bombardment in the city, and the Tartar cannons, after being killed a few of them, were taken five miles away. Five miles, this is the maximum range of the Tartar artillery.

At this range, the artillery is not accurate at all. The cannonballs that were fired either crossed the city walls and hit the city, or fell outside the city walls, blasting one large crater after another in the ground. If you want to hit the city wall and hurt people, one depends on luck, and the other depends on character.

Stilwell's original auxiliary bolt was unlucky, leaning against the battlements to reload his guns. A cannonball flew out, and even the battlements and people were blown away. Stilwell searched for a long time before he found a half-pulled ass under the city.

Stilwell's character is very good, and when the cannonball hits him, it either flies over his head or lands below. Although the ash is not less, it is not so bad that it will not die, and it is difficult for the king of Hades to recognize it.

The head of the city suddenly remembered the captain's shouting: "Those who can breathe are all fucking counted!" ”

The sound of the sparse number announcement rang out, and Stiltwell pricked up his ears to listen. When I heard the number sixty-three, there was no more sound.

When the morning star rose, more than 200 people were pulled to the city wall. Now only these sixty-three people remain, and this is only half a day. There is still a whole afternoon to stay up, and according to the general orders of the general soldier, they can only change their guard when it gets dark. Even if his son was on it, Shi Kefa would never order to change the guard in advance.

Stilwell knows his own Lao Tzu better than anyone else! This is a person with tendons, this is a person who does not hit the south wall and does not look back. There is only such a person who is willing to fight such a battle here.

It's been seven days, and it is always said that the reinforcements of Liaodong General Li's army will arrive tomorrow. But Stilway knew that it was a deception to the soldiers, and General Li of Liaodong had been promoted to the governor of Shandong. He can't control the affairs of Liaodong!

Life and death are commonplace! I used to hear that my father specially invited a veteran who came back to fight, and said that the veteran was the same as he is now. It's very bland, as if you're talking about having eaten.

The half-pulled butt of the bolt was also pulled away, and he called the bolt for a lifetime, and in the end he couldn't even tie his life.

"Hello, Chief!" The supplementary soldier walked up, with a Hebei accent.

Stilwell pursed his lips, the casualties of the soldiers from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were too great, and Dad had to put the people into the team. In this Li Guanzhen, in addition to 3,500 Nanjing forbidden troops. There were also 2,000 men who were building fortifications, who were supposed to leave for Hebei on the day of the Tartar attack. Now, they are all forced by the Tartars to be unable to move in Li Guanzhen.

An apple suddenly appeared in front of me, "I'm calling it a pillar of fire......!" The pillar of fire bared his teeth and tried to put on a smiling face.

Steenway knew it was a way for the recruits to curry favor with the veterans, though he had warned himself not to memorize the names of the recruits. But Stilwell nodded and took the apple.

The apples of Liaodong are delicious, sweet and sour, and they make a "click" and "click" sound in the mouth, which is very chewy. Stilwell swallowed the apple core in his stomach and grabbed the fire gun and moved it to the pillar of fire.

"Look closely, I'll only teach you once. The fire gun is erected like this, and this thing is called a bullet. Pour in the gunpowder, then stuff the bullet into the barrel and take the strip and press it to me. You have to learn to do it all while lying on the ground, if you don't want to die. ”

Recruits had to be taught everything, and teaching on the battlefield made Stilwell impatient. But there was no way, it had to be reloaded by the auxiliaries, and then shot by the veterans.

In fact, Stilwell hadn't played much before. But these seven days have made up for the previous decades.

The pillar of fire practiced hard, and the captain when he came up said. As long as they play well, each person will have a reward of fifty taels of silver. If you make war achievements, you can also go to the Jiangnan Forbidden Army as an errand boy. There are three taels of silver per month just for the monthly money, and that's three taels of silver.

I was repairing fortifications on the front line, and I worked hard for two months for only two taels of silver.

The pillar of fire looked left and right, and saw that no one noticed him. Only then did he pull out the grenade from the leather bag he was carrying. It wasn't until he pulled out a full ten grenades that the guy stopped. Stilwell's eyes were about to fall to the ground, no wonder this guy was carrying such a big leather bag, it turned out to be this thing.

"Where did you come from?" Stilwell suspects the guy of stealing the arsenal.

"My brother-in-law helped carry the ammunition and secretly hid some. I came up today, and my brother-in-law stuffed it for me. Say it's a great thing......! I don't know how to use it, so it's better to leave it to you. ”

"Shut down all these firecrackers!" Seeing that the Eight Banners soldiers on the opposite side had the intention of gathering again, Stilwell immediately commanded. He pulled over the box and put the grenade on the ground into the wooden box. Then, one by one, unscrew the back cover and take out the zipper.

"Remember! Under no circumstances are you allowed to look up, nor are you allowed to look down into the city. Lie on the ground and load the bullets! For the grenade's sake, Stilwell decided to take care of the recruit's eggs.

"Medium!"

"Talk to Shangguan and say yes!"

"No!" The stupid pillar of fire sat up and cracked its mouth.

Stilwell pounced and threw the pillar of fire on the wall. A cannonball whizzed past only five or six meters above its head, and then exploded in the city, sending up a huge column of smoke.

The shelling began again, and the tactics of the Houjin people were quite old-fashioned. The artillery rushed after the infantry, and the infantry rushed after the artillery fire. Coming and going has formed a pattern!

Several shells hit the walls, and the pillar of fire lying on the ground felt like it had been hit hard in the chest with a sledgehammer. It's stuffy, and I feel like I want to vomit blood.

"Load!" There was a pain in his leg and he was kicked by Stilwell. At the same time, a fire bolt was thrown on him, and the barrel of the gun smashed on his chin, so painful that the pillar of fire burst into tears.

Stilwell just hurriedly took aim, and fired a shot. The bullet struck a guy in the chest, and then passed through the chest, sending muscles, broken bones, and a large handful of blood into the dirt.

The head quickly retracted, and the platoon gun on the opposite side rang out. The city walls, which were full of craters, were immediately smashed into rubble.

There was a scream from the side, and my cousin Shi Danai was shot in the head. The bullet ripped open the entire skull, and the eyeballs popped out, hanging on the face by the nerves inside. The brain spewed out the face of the auxiliary soldier next to him, and the auxiliary soldier howled like a lynx with its tail chopped off.

After a quick glance, Stilwell picked up a firearm from the ground. Poke your head out and aim as fast as you can.

The pillar of fire tried hard to get on the bullet, and this guy was very excited. The speed of loading is getting faster and faster, which is very rare for a novice.

The tension made every muscle in Stilwell's body tense, and every time he poked his head out, he touched the tip of Death's nose.

Later in the Jin army, madman-like guys began to appear, and they rode tall horses. Purely with two legs to control the war horse, holding a huge powder bag in both hands. When he ran to the bottom of the city, he lit the explosive bag with the fire fold in his mouth, and then threw it to the bottom of the city and turned around and left.

Every time the explosive pack exploded, the people on the city walls felt a pang of suffocation. It looks like my heart is going to stop beating with that explosion!

The effect of the explosives package is very obvious, especially the two iron gates, which have been blown to pieces. If it weren't for the iron bars, I'm afraid it would have been torn apart by now.

Stilwell saw the opportunity and took down a guy with a single shot. I don't know if this shot hit a person or a war horse. Anyway, that guy is already a man on his back, and even if he doesn't die, he can't take care of himself.

The opposing musketeers pressed closer, and they worked hard to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city, creating an opportunity for the dead to throw the gunpowder bags at the city gates.

Several people were very close and had already shot several Ming gunners. Struart was furious and picked up a grenade. Quietly crawled some distance away, then slammed to his feet, his body catapulting out like an arrow off the string. When the grenade came out, the man fell straight to the wall.

The inertia of the forward almost caused him to roll off the wall without battlements.

The pillar of fire grabbed Stilwell's foot and howled and pulled Stilwell back.

The grenade exploded, and the gunners were killed by two. The rest of the men ran backwards, beaten into a sieve by the musketeers at the head of the city.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Mortars in the city fired, shells exploded on the skirmishers.

The commander-in-chief also let go, and actually used mortars to bombard the enemy's stragglers. It was too expensive, and I heard that it cost fifty taels of silver a shot. Before the start of the war, General Li of Liaodong transported a batch of troops. Then, the Jiangnan Forbidden Army had a lot less money.

Mortar shells are expensive, but they work really well. Especially when the distance is very close, in fact, the mortar is okay.

The flying shrapnel engulfed the gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and when the smoke cleared, the ground was littered with corpses. There were also some wounded, howling on the ground like killing pigs.

The Ming army in the city would not shoot at them, and for them the howl of the opponent was the most beautiful music. Anyway, these guys themselves will bleed to death, so why waste bullets.

The Houjin army would not care about these wounded, and rushed to help the wounded, and was likely to be killed by the fire on the head of the city. Dorgon didn't want to bear the weight of such a senseless battle!

As a result, the wounded of the Eight Banners of the Han Army wailed in front of the battle and no one paid attention. The wailing gradually turned into Shen Yin, and then the murmur. It was like a swarm of mosquitoes chirping, and it was like a group of people talking in a low voice. You ask, I answer.

In the end, under the watchful eyes of the two soldiers, the battlefield fell silent again.

"Hold on for a few days, and General Li will come to our rescue." The detached Stilwell leaned on the battlement and spoke, and the pillar of fire next to him nodded vigorously, although he didn't know who General Li was.

The officers all knew that Li Xiao was now the governor of Shandong, and the affairs of Liaodong were not in his charge. But almost every lieutenant would tell the soldiers that General Li would come to their rescue.

In their mouths, the general soldier Li who crisscrossed Liaodong was a god. He can shoot down eight eagles with a single shot and take down the strongest bull with one hand. You can eat a whole camel in one meal, and you need three lambs as a snack after the meal. If you have nothing to do, you will go to fight with the most ferocious demon in Liaodong. One was thrown into the Bohai Bay by him, hiding in the sea and not daring to come out. The other one was thrown onto a thousand hills, and he would be beaten whenever he remembered it.

The soldiers listened dumbfounded, which caused Li Xiao's image to be unusually tall in this army. It's just some Tartar, and can it be more powerful than the devil? When General Li arrived, he would be able to beat the people on the other side.

Everyone is looking forward to the arrival of Mr. Li!

Some of the men ran to the wall, and baskets made of wood were filled with gravel and earth. Then they were thrown indiscriminately at the city gates, and soon the city gates were blocked.

No one will think it's inappropriate to block the city gates, as long as the Tartars don't come in, who the hell still wants to go out at this time.

Scofa appeared on the city wall, and he greeted each soldier with a smile. He would also tell a few jokes to the soldiers, and the soldiers received great encouragement from the calm smile of the marshal.

Seeing Shi Danai's corpse, Shi Kefa's sadness only flashed on his face for a second. Then he patted Huozhu's shoulder affectionately, praised the young man for playing well, and introduced him to a good matchmaker when the battle was over.

Stilwell, who had a black and gray face beside the pillar of fire, was selectively ignored by Shi Kefa.