There were 100 mountain bandits in the stone fortress, and in addition to those who escaped and were killed, there were still more than 60 people. In addition to the seriously injured mountain bandits, Ouyang Xuan ordered the rest of the captives to be tied hand and foot, and left a squad to guard them, and then led a company to continue along the mountain road to attack Wanjiazhai halfway up the mountain.

When they advanced to more than 500 meters in front of Wanjiaping Cottage, Ouyang Xuan ordered the team to stop and asked Cao Ergou to hurry up and organize the formation and prepare for the attack. While the Thunderbolt Army was building fortifications and installing artillery, the soldiers in front brought a mountain bandit with an arrow in the arm to Ouyang Xuan and Cao Ergou. According to the mountain bandit, he was one of the people who escaped from the fortress just now, and after these people jumped out with agility, they ran all the way back to report the news, but they could not enter the gate of Wanjiaping cottage. The familiar bandits on the wall told them that the gate of the cottage could not be opened, and that to hang them into the cottage, Xiong Ben had to give them a personal order. Frightened and tired, they begged the mountain bandits at the top of the wall, and on the other hand, they complained about the fierceness of the Perak army's artillery fire and the fiasco of the fortress, but Xiong Ben, who rushed to hear the news, was angrily reprimanded for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and disturbing the morale of the army.

When these mountain bandits saw Xiong Ben standing on the tower of the walled gate, they immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic, crying about how incompetent Xia Qihu was and how brave he was, and at the same time begged Xiong Ben to give him a chance, and he would definitely live up to the kindness of his adult and make meritorious contributions. It's just that no matter how hard he begged, Xiong Ben still refused to hang a few people into the village. To say that these mountain bandits are not single, seeing that the Thunderbolt Army is getting closer and closer to the cottage, thinking of Hengzhi is death, they scolded in despair, and the content of the words is mostly greetings to Xiong Ben's ancestors and female relatives. This directly stabbed the hornet's nest, and was shot indiscriminately by Xiong Ben's people, and among the few people who finally escaped, only he escaped by luck, and the rest were shot into hedgehogs.

But what this bandit didn't know was that whether they scolded or not, they would eventually be executed by Xiong Ben. Xiong Ben originally thought that with the favorable terrain and solid stone walls, the fortress could last at least ten days and a half months, but it only lasted one night, which made him shocked and angry, and scolded Xia Qihu and his men for being stupid and stupid. These deserters also cried and played up the Thunderbolt artillery, disturbing the hearts of the soldiers in the village, which made Xiong Ben extremely harsh. Just when Zheng Chou couldn't find an excuse for punishment, these deserters actually dared to scold him and killed them to sacrifice the flag.

After listening to the bandits' story, Ouyang Xuan ordered him to be taken down for treatment, and it was this sentence that made the bandits turn their heads, and he bowed deeply and said: "My lord, after the village is broken, Xiong Ben will definitely flee to other places through the path at the back door of the village, please make plans early." After saying that, the bandit was escorted by two soldiers and walked in the direction of the fortress. Ouyang Xuan estimated that Xiong Ben would run away, as the saying goes, "three holes of cunning rabbits", after operating for so many years, it is strange that Xiong Ben has no way out. He was not afraid of Xiong Ben escaping, but he was afraid that Xiong Ben would take too many things with him when he escaped. It seems that Cao Ergou has to hurry up and attack and catch Xiong Ben off guard.

Before the attack, Cao Ergou ordered three trenches with a width of one meter each to be dug on the mountain road, and the ditches were five meters apart. The three trenches were followed by three sack earthen walls, and behind the earthen walls were artillery. The widest part of the mountain road is only three or four meters wide, and a row can fit a cannon. In terms of artillery arrangement, the direct-firing mother and child cannon is still placed in the front, and the curved tiger squat cannon is placed in the back. The ensuing battle proved that Cao Ergou's painstaking arrangement was very necessary.

When the Thunderbolt Army began to test the cannon in Wanjiazhai, Xiong Ben knew that Xia Qihu had died unjustly. Although the cannons brought by the Thunderbolt army this time are small, the firepower is very fierce, especially the two cannons in the front, although they are much smaller than the cannons on the wall of Liuliba, but they fire solid iron bullets, and the first shot of the test shot broke a tree with a thick bowl mouth in front of the walled gate. Xiong Ben knew in his heart that although the wall of Wanjiazhai had been strengthened during this time, it would definitely not be able to withstand a few blows, as for the human body, it was ....... The power of this artillery made the mountain bandits tremble, and some of the bandits were even frightened. Seeing that his morale was so low, Xiong Ben knew that he could no longer cower and be beaten passively, so he immediately gathered his own troops, and selected 50 mountain bandits to be led by himself, preparing to raid the artillery positions of the Thunderbolt army outside the village.

In the process of the mountain bandits leaving the village, the Thunderbolt Army was still stepping up the test of artillery and constantly correcting the impact point. In order to interfere with the artillery firing of the Thunderbolt Army, and in order to increase the momentum of the surprise attack, Xiong Ben ordered the mountain bandits in the village to launch a counterattack with long-range weapons. For a time, flying stones, crossbow arrows, etc. flew from the wall to the thunderbolt army on the mountain road, causing dust on the mountain road, and small trees and weeds on the side of the road fell down. Most of the stones and arrows fired by the bandits' light bed crossbows and trebuchets fell within 300 meters, which still had the advantage of firing from a height. The heavy three-bow bed crossbow of the Two Song Dynasty had a range of up to 1,500 meters, but it required thirty people to pull it, and the manufacturing technology of this kind of large-scale killing weapon was by no means something that the mountain bandits of Wanjiaping could master. Ouyang Xuan set up an artillery position about a mile in front of the wall, but he was sure that the siege weapons of the mountain bandits could not hit here.

Of course, this distance is not to sit back and relax, and the mountain bandits also have a defensive weapon - the stone ball. From the gate of Wanjiazhai to the artillery position of the Perak Army, the terrain is a straight and long gentle slope. In order to prevent the Thunderbolt attack, the mountain bandits had already dug a small ditch in the middle of the road, and also prepared many cobblestone balls the size of watermelons. Now Xiong Ben is ordering people to push the round stones into the small ditch in the middle of the road. The cobblestones descended the slope and rolled faster and faster under the force of gravity, and the impact was terrifying. However, due to the long rolling distance, most of the stone balls rolled out of the mountain road, and the remaining stones were blocked by the trenches and earthen walls in front of the artillery positions, causing no casualties. But Rao was like this, and he was also frightened by the faces of the first few rows of Thunderbolt soldiers.

As soon as the last batch of stone balls was pushed down the mountain road, Xiong Ben gave the order to raid. This battle is related to the life and death of the Wanjiaping mountain bandits, so this time he put the pro-soldier team at the front, and the mountain bandits who picked the point followed closely behind, and he supervised the formation at the back of the queue as always. Because it was a charge downhill, and the pro-army team was very elite, the speed of the mountain bandits' surprise attack was extremely fast. By the time the last of the stone balls were blocked by the earthen wall, the bandits had already broken through a third of the way. Cao Ergou saw the black crow bandits rushing down with swords and shields, and hurriedly ordered the spearmen and giant shield soldiers to quickly form a formation behind the earthen wall, and ordered the gunners to stop shooting and retreat to the rear. The Thunderbolt artillery had to be recalibrated to shoot new fixed targets, let alone hit fast-moving bandits.

To say that Xiong Ben's personal army is definitely the elite of the light infantry in the cold weapon era, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the strongest soldier in the northwest mountainous area of Chongqing Mansion. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, the 100 soldiers of the 1st Company of the Thunderbolt Army will definitely not be able to defeat the 50 mountain bandits of the pro-soldier team, which Cao Ergou and others also admitted. It's just that times have changed, the rules of war have been rewritten by Ouyang Xuan, and Xiong Ben's personal army will be defeated in front of the Thunderbolt army, which is equipped with firearms and adopts advanced combat methods.