"General, that military fort is only this big, and there aren't many people in it." Purple Shirt sneered: "The defenders are only five or six hundred at best."

"If that's all there is to it, then what are you waiting for? The brothers rushed up, and no matter how many firearms he had, he couldn't resist it!" A lieutenant shouted from behind.

"Hey, if only I could do that." Deng Zhongjun smiled bitterly: "I heard from the brothers that the road to the ferry is getting narrower and narrower, and there are woods on both sides.

There is only such a place as big as a palm at the ferry, and at most a thousand people are piled up every time you go up, so the first few rounds of general's guns and firearms have caused so many casualties that you can't run away!"

"Then divide into five teams and take turns attacking!" Yintuo said with a cold face: "If you hit this thing too much, it will explode, I don't believe he can use it all the time?"

Besides, just now the brothers let the family ambush because they were unprepared, so let's take precautions!" He reached out and pointed back:

"Go to the village in the back and collect the door panels, firewood, and baskets. Immediately build ladders, shields, firewood, and baskets of earth to fill in the pit and pave the way! The way is that a living person can still suffocate urine?"

The whole army immediately took action, and went to the fields to cut the fast-ripening rice, and some people led the team to rush to the village.

"These dogs are going to harm the people!" On the mountain, Zhao Jingzi was shocked and angry when he saw the village on fire. Everyone was also very angry and asked for battle.

Li Dan gritted his teeth and said calmly, "If you pass the word, all departments are not allowed to expose their targets!" Remember this account, and they will have to pay it back when the time comes!"

It was not even an hour, and it was convenient to redeploy.

Yintuo had three generals and six lieutenants under him, and in the second attack he decided to let the deputy general Wang Xi lead the team, and the whole army was divided into five teams, which were led by Zhu, Xiu, Lu, Lin, and Feng (the other was Chen Bandou, who died earlier).

Wang Xi personally supervised the battle, and the part brought by Captain Zhu was mainly people, who used straw, firewood, and bamboo baskets filled with soil to throw into the long pit, and after filling it, they spread the door panel on the top, and let the follow-up second team come up and step on the door panel to cross the ditch.

The people were also afraid of putting guns on the opposite side, so they made a shield cart with a large wooden beam and pushed it forward, and there was a shield made of bamboo or wood in their hands to protect it until they reached the edge of the ditch, and then threw things out from the back of the car to fill the ditch.

The ditch was six feet deep, seven feet wide, and sixty paces long. Thousands of people worked feverishly for more than half an hour, and finally filled in part of the ditch. But for some reason, there was not a single shot on the other side.

"Maybe they didn't have enough gunpowder, so they decided to save it?" The purple-shirted Taoist guessed.

He didn't know that in addition to the gunpowder transported when he came out, Li Dan took advantage of the opportunity to make wine and glass, and used the sulfur and saltpeter provided by the Hengfeng kiln, plus the toner produced here, to make a new gunpowder in the ratio of 10:75:15, which Li Dan called gunpowder.

He uses sulfur purified by evaporation and pure nitrate boiled with plant ash water.

After mixing the dry powder of the three, it is mixed with nitrate solution and stirred into a "cake" and dried in a crucible, crushed and sieved with a grinding disc again, and mixed with black lead (graphite) powder to obtain the polar grain.

In Chen Sanwen's account, Li Dan called this "Arabia Gun Medicine Preparation Method". So the gunpowder they now use is dark wheat, not pure black as the common impression is.

Compared with the black powder originally used, the same amount of medicine can be shot up to 230 paces, and the 60% dose can basically hit the same distance as the full black powder.

This means that the gunners can shoot more times with the same weight of gunpowder.

After the ditch was filled, the first team withdrew, and the second team led by Captain Xiu quickly stepped forward.

But at this time, the problem arose, because everyone heard that there were firearms on the opposite side, and everyone was afraid of being hit, and they all wanted to hide behind others, which caused the situation of thousands of hedgehogs in a group.

Lieutenant Xiu peered out from behind the wooden shield to observe the movement, and all his close subordinates were crowded behind him. When he turned around, he was horrified to find that the people behind him were crowded and crowded.

"Mom, don't you want to die so many people crowded together? Disperse, disperse!" He waved his hand vigorously, but his subordinates hesitated and didn't move

Before he wanted to shout a few words, the general on the opposite side spoke first.

Two projectiles burst out of the muzzle, and the huge kinetic energy shattered the wood used to make the wooden shield, and the fragments flew in all directions.

The man injured by the sawdust screamed in terror, but the projectile still rushed forward with inertia until it knocked down a knife player in the back team.

"Can't stop, rush! Rush up to me, or I'll all die in this hellish place, rush!" Lieutenant Xiu shouted, and his cronies pushed the soldiers around him out with a lot of thrust.

These people had no choice but to jump on the door panel with a shout, and rush across the ditch with the soft feeling under their feet (there were dead bodies underneath).

Seeing someone passing, the back also became bolder, closed their eyes and rushed out shouting, so more and more came out from behind the shield cart.

A hundred steps were not far away, and in the blink of an eye they were under the wall. But touching the smooth walls, you look at me, I look at you, you don't know what to say.

Someone struck the knife on the top a few times, and then shouted in a panic, "What the hell is this? It's not mud, it's not brick, it's all stone?"

Seeing that the people below gathered more and more, suddenly two melon-sized packages were thrown from the tower, and they fell to the ground with a "pop".

"Huh, what is this?" Someone spotted looking down.

This thing looks like an enlarged drumstick, but the wooden handle on the back is thinner. With a "boom" it exploded. The one with his head bowed flew four feet away, his left eye fell out, and the man vomited blood.

There were four or five other people around the blast site, and the others who were knocked down but did not die froze, not knowing what had happened.

But soon, there were several "booms, booms" in succession, which shook people's ears, and they could not hear what their comrades were shouting or stand unsteadily. When I was able to see it clearly, I found that there were more dead and wounded on the ground.

Wang Xi was shocked when he heard such a movement, and hurriedly took a dozen personal soldiers to check. I saw that half of them were hiding behind the broken wreckage of the shield cart and shivering, and they couldn't help but be furious: "Where are you captains? Where's the surname?"

"Captain, lieutenant ahead...... Ahh

Swinging a knife to kill the soldier who had been trembling, Wang Xi glared and roared, "Which one is behind the captain Xiu, Lao Tzu cut him first!"

The crowd was frightened by the appearance of his beard, and they all got up and went forward. The method of killing chickens and making an example of monkeys works everywhere.

"Rush, rush to Lao Tzu, put the ladder on the wall! Two more teams over there!" Wang Xi took over the command almost personally.

Under the urging and persecution of him and his own soldiers, these people began to flock to the wall, regardless of whether there were dead or wounded on the ground, and even set up ladders to climb up and down the corpses.

At this time, the "crackling" sound continued to sound, and the crossfire from the tower began to fire downward, and the gunners barely had to aim.

Because the distance is too close and dense, most of them do not wear armor, and some projectiles can even injure a third person if they penetrate two.

In the tower, there were teams of three, the first was responsible for the charge, the second was loaded, and the third was shot.

The firecrackers posed a great threat, and people were constantly being knocked down, but the kind of "thunder" (presumably some kind of trumpet 10,000 enemies) that was thrown out became less and less.

That's because of the rush of time, Chen Sanwen made a total of more than 100 of them, and he didn't dare to use too much, and he had to accumulate strength for the future.

The attackers thought that the opponent was not strong enough, so they got proud and climbed up at the risk of being hit by the fire.

Finally, a few fast and fierce people came up first, and were shouting triumphantly, when they suddenly found that the battlement was a little lacking in morality.

Unlike the usual battlements, the distance between the battlements is a bit narrow. How narrow is it? It looks wide on the outside, but on the inside there is a narrow corner, and the distance between the two corners is only two fists.

Let's put it this way, if a big man wants to get up from here, he has to lean sideways, and he has to be careful not to wear his crotch through his pants. If this guy is wearing armor, it's better for him to take it off and try again.

So a few of the first ones were hesitating about what posture or method to use, when suddenly the light of a knife and gun flashed in the wall, and then

Terrible screams were heard, and the first climbers fell off the city wall one after another, either dead or injured.

"Officers and soldiers, there are officers and soldiers in the city!" A burst of exclamations came, which surprised Wang Xi.

But he immediately calmed down: "Don't be afraid, what about the officers and soldiers? Lao Tzu has killed a lot of officers and soldiers, give me up, and the first one will be rewarded with ten taels!"

When he heard that the reward was out, he immediately became greedy and excited, and squeezed forward desperately, trying to get ahead of others. The battle began to enter a fierce state.

At this time, Chen Sanwen had already come to Tower No. 2 (numbered from east to west) from the big gun, and began to observe the movements and results of the firecrackers. Suddenly, a crowd of people ran into the tower.

"Mr. Chen, dodge, borrow, borrow! Go up, get up, there's a man on every roof!"

Chen Sanwen looked back and saw that it was an old acquaintance Dou San'er. "Hey, didn't you go to Guangxin?" He immediately asked.

"Just came back! Looks like it's still in time for meritorious service!" Dou San'er pulled him to the side, and several archers in naval uniforms rushed up the stairs from them with crossbow machines.

"As soon as I arrived in Guangxin, there were 300 archers sent by Shuizhai to reinforce it, and Sun Shoubei sent 200 people to the ferry without saying a word. I've pulled half of it in a wagon, and half of it is on the way!"

"Great! It's a combination that makes us stronger, so it looks like it's okay to hold this place!"

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of gold on the other side. The people under the wall turned around and ran back, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow or projectile fired from behind. Eventually, they disappeared behind the Shattered Shield Car.

"Hey, why did they run away as soon as I arrived?" Dou San'er said annoyedly.

"Don't worry," Chen Sanwen looked out from the perforation, pointed, "Look, their third wave is coming again. Yintuo is trying to engage in a round of battles, so that we can't rest!"

On the second platform, Liu Hongsheng told the platoon commander to let the sighter continue to smash the shield car so that the other party would not drag it back for repairs. Twisting his face, he saw Sheng Huaien walking up to the platform.

"Your Excellency." He stepped forward and saluted with his fist in his heart. Sheng Huaien had long been accustomed to this way of saluting in Li Dan's team, nodded and asked, "Is the gunpowder enough?"

"Enough!" Liu Hongsheng nodded: "I prepared a lot in the past few days on Nanshan, and there are plenty of stone bullets."

It turned out that the "medicine cakes" made in the workshop were all taken to the firearms battalion, and they crushed, sifted and polarized the grains themselves, which not only made use of their labor, but also allowed the team members to experience the power of the medicine grains in use, and even proposed improvements.

Although gunpowder is used for the big gun, the bird gun, and the grenade, the formula of the three is not exactly the same. Among the large guns, pure nitrate accounts for 75%, bird guns are about 73%, and grenades are 71%.

At the beginning, the purpose of making guns in different proportions was only to test their different effects, but in the end, it was concluded that the same amount of medicine at 75% could make the shooting accuracy and distance of the big guns significantly better than the other two;

When 73% of this kind is used for bird shooting, compared with 75%, it does not increase too much vibration and sound, but it can greatly increase the distance and accuracy of projectile shooting.

Therefore, in the end, these three guns were applied to different weapons, which can be regarded as a windfall after the experiment.

Liu Hongsheng thought that Sheng Huaien was on the platform to supervise the battle, but he pulled his arm, and the two got off the platform. Liu Hongsheng was feeling inexplicable, and suddenly heard Sheng Huaien ask, "You and Li Sanlang are very familiar, right?"

"Ah, of course." Liu Hongsheng was about to add two sentences, when the big gun behind him sounded "bang", and then he heard a cheer from above, which seemed to have hit the target.

"Then let me ask you, do you know that there is a person named Yang Dayi?"

"Yang, Yang Sect Leader, of course you know!" Liu Hongsheng didn't know why he mentioned this name, and his eyes widened.

"Oh, your leader?" Sheng Huaien's face relaxed, and he became less serious.

"Qianhu has seen the Golden Flower Array in the front camp, right?" Liu Hongsheng leaned close to his ear and said loudly, his ears were a little ringing, thinking that his voice was too low for the other party to hear clearly. "That Golden Flower Array was figured out by him and Saburo together!"

"I'll tell you!" Sheng Huaien pulled him to take a few steps into the distance

Leaving the platform, he cried out in his ear in the same voice:

"That guy looked like he had been in the army, and he certainly wasn't a big soldier. But he insisted that he was just a family member, and he delivered letters to Li Sanlang's family, which I don't look like at all!

If you say that you do not know, I will have him taken out and cut down as a fine work."

"What, Yang Chain is here? Is he here?" Liu Hongsheng was taken aback.

"I'm sitting in the house, but now that I'm fighting, I can't tell him to see Li Sanlang immediately." Sheng Huaien spread his hands and said.

"In that case, how about you send him to Song Zhenfu and let them meet after the battle is over?"

"Okay, that's it!"

Song Xiaoniu was overjoyed to see Yang Dayi, because he was worried about no one to lead the team!

He and Master Ba went to find the leaders who had descended, and the result of the negotiation was very good. Among them, the highest prestige is a whistle named Xin Chi, nicknamed Ah Mao, twenty-five years old this year, a native of Nanping.

He used to be the general flag in the official army, but he was later convicted and sent to the mine to work hard. After Lou Shifan scolded the word "thief slave" that day, he was the first to attack him.

The other two sentinels were named Wei Zhou'er, one was Lin Ziyang, and the other two were lower-ranking flag officials Zhou Tu and Liao Sanqing (this person was a Taoist priest). When they heard that the beating of Yintuo was really without saying a word, they immediately called out about 500 people.

But most of these people were their former subordinates, and Song Xiaoniu was a little troubled in his heart, and he didn't know what to do. It was at this juncture that Yang Dayi came, making him like a treasure.

"Sect Leader Yang is here well, otherwise I'm really worried to death!" The little cow immediately invited him to serve as the head of the newly organized battalion: "Anyway, you are a serious hundred households, otherwise who else is more suitable?"

"I really didn't expect you and Saburo to do a good job here, and they all pulled out of the team!" Yang said with a careless smile.

The calf looked around and whispered to him, "You're here, I'm just asking for something. Saburo told me that at the end of this mission, the regimental training had to be disbanded, and the original Minfu team was probably going to be dismissed and returned to their hometown.

He said that most of these surrendered troops, except for a few leaders and their henchmen, who might follow us, were to be incorporated or added to the officers and troops in various places."

"Well, that's right." Yang nodded carelessly, this is the consistent practice of the official army. "What, you can't bear it? However, there may be some left, depending on the changes in the enemy situation and the needs of the mission."

"Note 1: Meticulous work, sentinel and intermediary are different concepts. Detailing generally refers to battlefield scouts disguised as civilians; Sentinels are scouts in military uniforms, such as the Ming army who do not accept them at night; Occasionally, it refers to a spy who has been lurking in a place for a long time and is operating in a public capacity."