The counterattack behind the wall on the hillside gradually weakened, and everyone's mood became more and more anxious, not because the attack of the thief army weakened or stopped, but because the ordnance brought by the convoy was about to run out.

Since most of the guards of the Zhang Chamber of Commerce use short bows and spears for defense, the common point between the two is that they do not need to shoot head-on with the thief army like the crossbowmen of the dart board, so the casualties are relatively small, except for the three guards who took over the dead dart division into the footsteps, only seven or eight were wounded by stray arrows, and the casualties are not serious on the whole,

But Li Shan learned other serious information, the short crossbow is equipped with not many crossbow arrows, and there are not many left, and there are few left in everyone's hands at this moment, as for the feather arrows, it is good to say, the original number is quite large, and the arrows launched by the thief army can also be reused, but if you simply rely on the counterattack of more than 20 short bows, the situation faced by the caravan is not optimistic, after all, most of the attacks that can withstand the attack of the thief army just now rely on the power of the short crossbow,

At present, Heizi and Ding Li are relatively idle, the crossbows used by the two are different from the usual, even the crossbow arrows are specially made, even if the two deliberately brought enough crossbow arrows before leaving Guangzhou City, but they didn't expect such a tough battle, and even felt that there was no use for it, there were few crossbow arrows left, and the two of them were extremely cautious every time they launched, lest they waste any of them,

Kuroko borrowed a short bow from one of Zhang's guards, and from time to time he went out to find the weak point of the thief army, and then took the bow and arrow to make an extremely beautiful projectile, although there was no gain in the first few times, but with the experience of several failures, every subsequent launch, can always receive unexpected gains,

"Brother Li, the cavalry at the bottom of the hill has gathered, and it looks like it is about to charge again," Suddenly, when Heizi probed to find the target again, his body couldn't help but feel excited, and he clearly saw that Qin Mo's cavalry was rapidly converging, and he hurriedly turned around and reminded Ding Li on the other side of the carriage in a deep voice: "Brother Li, it seems that they are not ready to divide their troops to break through this time, there are about forty or fifty horsemen, if they attack from the side, it is estimated that it will be difficult for our brothers to resist,"

"What's so difficult, if you can't stop it, you have to block it, otherwise you will die," Ding Li also glanced out, frowned and answered in a deep voice, and then looked at the surrounding dart masters who were hiding behind the carriage with short crossbows sweating profusely, especially the pain on the faces of the wounded, Ding Li also felt more and more that the situation was not good,

"Ali," Li Shan also quickly discovered the thief army's intention to take over, came to Ding Li's side, first looked around, and then lowered his voice to persuade Ding Li: "This batch of goods was received by our dart bureau, and what is there should be us to follow, you have also seen the current situation Ali, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape this catastrophe today, Ali, you are different from us, you still have big things to do,"

"Brother Li," At this point, how could Ding Li still not understand Li Shan's intentions, and immediately interrupted the other party with a deep sigh, frowning and directly rejecting the other party's kindness: "Brother Li, I understand what you mean, don't say it, I won't leave you to go first anyway, I, Ding Li, have never done such a thing,"

After that, without giving the anxious Li Shan a chance to speak again, Ding Li shook his head directly at the sunspot and shouted: "Come with me, I don't believe we can't stop them,"

"Let's go, come a few bold brothers," Kuroko didn't know what it meant to be afraid, although he was just a black hand who was good at sneak attacks, but this did not affect his courage at all, and he let out a deep sigh without fear, and the cat bent down quickly to keep up with Ding Li's footsteps, and quickly jumped towards the side of the car wall,

"The weapon is a little less, in the past, bring some spears over, and use them as spears for a while, this thing is no worse than the power of crossbow arrows," to the side of the car wall, Ding Li glanced at the more than ten people stationed here who were just a spear and a saber on his waist, and shook his head and ordered to the two accompanying miscellaneous servants, and then turned his head and swept over the people brought by the sunspot, groaned, and loudly analyzed it for everyone: "Everyone has also seen that the cavalry of the thief army is still gathering, but in the end it will not exceed a hundred horses, although our number is small, But we have a geographical advantage, and of course, our weapons also have a certain advantage,"

Saying that, Ding Li shook the Qin crossbow in his hand to everyone, and then continued: "Now we have a total of eight crossbows and seven bows, but then again, this advantage is not enough to completely make up for our disadvantage, so it will depend on the cooperation of everyone in a while, as long as we defend properly, one hundred and ten cavalry will not be able to do anything to us, let alone want to break through our car wall defense,"

After that, Ding Li began to assign tasks, he and Kuroko respectively led three crossbowmen as alternate rounds of fire, and the task of the seven archers was relatively easy, only needed to carry out indiscriminate projectiles on the thief army in the general direction behind the car wall, only to deter and not to hurt the enemy, although he gave up the accurate target, but Ding Li asked everyone to be ruthless and fast, after all, one more round of volleys, it is possible to create a point of counterattack time for their own side,

In addition to the crossbowmen, there are eight Zhang's guards with spears as weapons, and there are also the subordinates of the Zhang's Chamber of Commerce in the accompanying convoy, although they have not received strict training, but they also know some fists and feet, and at this moment, they volunteered to Ding Li that they can also fight the enemy together with everyone.

In this way, there were seven more people on Ding Li's side, especially when the miscellaneous servants ordered by Ding Li just now moved a bunch of spears, including three strong men with Zhangba spears sent by Li Shan, the head of the big dart, Ding Li arranged the three of them into the gap between the carriages without thinking, and the spears of Zhangba were handed out, jumping out of the carriage by more than one meter.

Ding Li assigned the spears to the Zhang guards and the miscellaneous servants who volunteered to fight the enemy together, each of them was given three shots, and then Ding Li began to give a few people detailed instructions on the task and how to attack the thief army outside the car wall at that time, but before he finished speaking, the sunspot who had been observing the movement of the thief army behind him shouted loudly: "Brother Li, they have started,"

"Okay, everyone will work hard for a while," Ding Li didn't care about saying too much, reached out and patted the shoulder of a guard in front of him, nodded at everyone with encouragement on his face, and then turned around and jumped behind the car wall, and took advantage of the situation to wind Qin's crossbow,

Qin Mo's cavalry was not alone, in order not to lose a big one, Zhang Scar also gathered more than 20 of Wang Qing's subordinates who retreated from the front, and also transferred fifteen cavalry guards around him for Qin Mo to directly command, and the troops commanded by Qin Mo suddenly doubled.

When Ding Li looked out from behind the car wall, Qin Mo's cavalry team that had just been temporarily assembled did not rush directly up the hill as Heizi said, but first turned around and ran in the opposite direction, which made many people around Ding Li who were looking at the situation a little confused, but then Ding Li opened his mouth and gave everyone the answer: "It's too close to us, it's not easy for the mount to increase the speed, it seems that this guy is a lot higher than the means just now, he should indeed know a little bit about fighting,"

Ding Li's unintentional explanation made the nerves of the people around him who had just relaxed a lot and couldn't help but tense a lot, especially those handymen who had just volunteered, the spears in their hands couldn't stop writhing, and they also let go of their five fingers from time to time, and quickly wiped their sweaty hands on their clothes, and then tightly held the barrel of the gun, and their faces dripping with sweat were full of nervousness and vigilance.

"Heizi, you come with the first arrow," Ding Li also noticed the changes in the people around him, shouted at Heizi, and then turned his head to comfort everyone in a deep voice: "Everyone relax, only by relaxing, can we shoot accurately, remember, if we can shoot an enemy, we have more hope of victory, maybe our companions around us don't have to fall,"

As soon as the words fell, Kuroko's voice sounded again: "It's coming, it's already turned around,"

In fact, there is no need for sunspots to say, everyone can also think of the sound of horses' hooves changing in their ears, especially the slight tremor of the ground under their feet is gradually intensifying.

"Speed up, speed up," the distance of one hundred and seventy steps began to turn around, and after Qin Mo, who was commanding at the end of the cavalry team, saw that the entire team had turned around, he began to urge loudly, and then ordered loudly to both sides: "Those who raise shields, keep up, hurry up,"

With Qin Mo's order, more than a dozen cavalrymen on each side with a square shield in their left hands began to slam their horses hard, and at the same time gave different instructions to the mounts under their crotch with their legs, and quickly went up from both sides of the team to the middle of the front, a short distance of less than fifty steps, that is, before entering the range of the crossbowmen behind the car wall on the hillside, a herringbone had been formed to protect the cavalry team behind them, and the square shield in each person's hand was even more protected in front of them, and the whole person tried to lie on the horseback. Hide your body behind a shield to prevent the shot of the crossbow,

"Hey, it's quite tight," the sunspot who squatted on the ground and pressed the crossbow against the carriage board opened and closed his eyes in turn, changed several angles and finally spat hard to the side, and then said to the three crossbowmen who were with him: "If you are not sure, shoot the war horse, damn it, these guys are really not bad,"

Hearing this, several dart masters nodded, and the anxiety on their ugly faces was much less, and then they heard the sunspot next to him scolding viciously, 'raised by a bitch', and the next second was a crisp sound that came into everyone's ears, followed by a piercing sound of breaking the air,

"Whoosh,"

A flash of silver light appeared, and after a short stabbing sound, everyone, including Ding Li, hurriedly went out to check the situation, and a thief cavalry running in front of the head almost fell in response, but with the charge of a large group of cavalry behind, the cavalry who fell off the horse was quickly drowned by the rolling horses' hooves, Ding Li and the others did not see clearly which direction the sunspot shot,

However, the shield cavalry wrapped around the thief army were all trembling at the scene just now, and their nerves suddenly tensed, as if they wanted to shrink their bodies a little bit again, and completely hide behind the shield, because the unlucky companion just now was actually hit by an arrow in the side neck, and he couldn't even let out a wail before dying, so he died directly, and fell off the horse into a puddle of flesh under the iron hooves.

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(Tianjin)