The sturdy homeless people who attacked Wanjiabao were actually Zhao Shicai's subordinates. Under the cover of merchants, old men, women and children, they took advantage of the kindness and compassion of the Perak soldiers to deceive the fortress gates. The merchants, the elderly, women and children were all forcibly recruited by Xiong Ben, and they also knew in their hearts that they would not have long eyes in war, and they would be lucky in this crime, but they had to come, because Xiong Ben had taken their relatives as hostages, and if they did not cooperate, they would be slaughtered. Under the coercion and temptation, the sad faces on the faces of the women and children who wept and cried made them even more real, which made the soldiers guarding the fort feel compassion and persuaded Shi Zhongzhu to open the gate.

When the subordinates pretending to be homeless people took the merchants, old people, women and children to Wanjiabao, Zhao Shicai took most of the marquis outside Erli. At this distance, the fortress guards could not see the army due to the obscuration of the mountains, and the roar of the rushing well and the river below also drowned out the sound of men and horses. When he saw the signal of success, he hurried to Wanjiabao with his army. In Zhao Shicai's view, taking Wanjiabao means that the task of leveling the Thunderbolt Army in the mountains has basically been completed. It can be inferred that although this Thunderbolt army is good at building cities, it is obviously clumsy in strategy, and such a strong fortress does not send heavy troops to defend it, so it can easily fall. I heard that Xiong Ben was extremely afraid of the Thunderbolt army, and the defeated Mongol soldiers also said that their combat power was fierce, but now it seems that this is no more than that. Of course, this is also God's favor for him, and then he only needs to make persistent efforts to crush the Thunderbolt Army into powder with the momentum of thunder. Take this mountain, why worry about being promoted and making a fortune? Thinking of this, Zhao Shicai couldn't help but be even more proud, urging his soldiers to hurry up and march towards Wanjiazhai halfway up the mountain.

Before Zhao Shicai led his troops to attack Wanjiazhai, he sent someone to bring a message to the Mongolian centurion who was in charge, saying that the soldiers were fast and he wanted to take the Thunderbolt army in one go. But in fact, the abacus in his heart is to share the credit alone, on the one hand, he is worried that Xiong Ben will lead people to sneak attack Wanjiazhai from the small road, and on the other hand, he is not willing to share the fruits of victory with the new annexed army of Qingcheng County, which is belated. Of course, what he reported to the Mongolian centurion was that the new annexed army in Qingcheng County was now five miles away, and if he waited, he would delay the fighter plane. When the messenger he sent to report to the Mongol centurion further back, he would definitely encounter the new annex army of Qingcheng County, but he would certainly not reveal the slightest information about the battle situation.

After leaving a hundred people to guard the fort, Zhao Shicai took the remaining five hundred men and horses to Wanjiazhai. Before setting out, he ordered the defenders to close the two front and rear gates of the fort, and not to open them without his orders. Closing the back door is to prevent the Thunderbolt army from raiding from the direction of Liulizhai, and closing the front door is to prevent the new annexed army of Qingcheng County from entering the city. Of course, he will definitely open the door for the Qingcheng County Army, but at that time, he had already laid down Wanjiazhai to sweep away the Thunderbolt Army.

The process of entering Wanjiazhai is also very smooth. There are several empty and dilapidated watchtowers along the way from Wanjiabao to Wanjiazhai, and it seems that the guards have long since fled. This is not surprising, after all, there were a few Thunderbolt soldiers who had fled from Wanjiabao before, and the army they led was huge, how could they dare to flee without looking at the wind? However, although there was no resistance from the defenders, the speed of Zhao Shicai's advance was not fast, in addition to the narrow congestion and the rugged mountain roads, which made it difficult for most of the soldiers of the new annexed army in Dayi County, who came from the plain area. These soldiers of the new annex army marched all the way and buzzed all the way, on the contrary, Wanjiazhai seemed unusually quiet, and only occasionally someone stuck out of the wall to inspect.

When he was a mile away from the gate of Wanjiazhai, Zhao Shicai ordered his subordinates to stop advancing and prepare to attack as a whole. However, before attacking, he still had to send someone to shout to persuade him to surrender, and if the Thunderbolts were willing to kneel down and ask for surrender, he could consider killing fewer people. Of course, the killing is not because of the bodhisattva's heart, but it can be sold as slaves, which will be a lot of income.

Just as Zhao Shicai was thinking about how to dispose of the property and population that was about to arrive, the gate of Wanjiazhai slowly opened, and dozens of sturdy men worked together to move something out of the wall and pushed it down the mountain road....... Zhao Shicai had not really seen it, but the soldiers standing at the forefront were in a commotion and cried, desperately squeezing to the cliff on the left side of the road, and some soldiers even panicked and jumped under the cliff next to the right side of the road. When the crowd in front of him dispersed, he could see clearly that it was a stone ball that was rapidly coming towards the crowd. Under the action of gravity, the watermelon-sized stone rolled faster and faster, rolling down the mountain road with an unstoppable momentum, and those who could not avoid it would break their bones at least and die on the spot. A stone ball rushed down from Zhao Shicai's side with the sound of the wind, Rao is quick reaction was able to avoid this catastrophe, but several pro-soldiers around him were not so lucky, some were wiped and broke their hands and legs, some were smashed and spit blood, and even if they swallowed their breath, one person was directly knocked and fell under the cliff.

The stone balls came and went quickly, and in an instant, there was a cry on the mountain road. In fact, although there were dozens of stone balls pushed down by the Thunderbolt army, most of them rolled down the cliff next to the mountain road, and only more than ten of them rushed straight towards the new annex army, and there were only more than 20 people who actually hit them, not as many as the people who were scared to jump off the cliff, but the stone balls smashed the team on the mountain road to pieces. The Thunderbolt Army had suffered the loss of stone balls when they attacked Wanjiazhai before, although Cao Ergou had piled up the chest wall and dug a trench out of the need to protect the artillery, so he luckily did not cause damage, but it also scared Ouyang Xuan and others into a cold sweat. Although the Thunderbolts' stone ball attack did not kill many people, it also frightened the new annexes into turning pale and severely damaging their morale. You must know that the reason why the soldiers of the new annex army surrendered to Mongolia was mostly because they were greedy for life and afraid of death. Although Zhao Shicai promised to plunder the property at will after breaking through the walled city, in their opinion, although the property is precious, life is more important.

After the shock was settled, Zhao Shicai ordered to reorganize the queue, and while ordering people to set up light trebuchets, he picked two hundred people to prepare for a tentative attack first. He could now see that the stone ball had smashed the soldier out of the psychological shadows, and he was starting to cringe. If you don't attack in time now, wait for the Thunderbolts to come out again, and the blow to morale will be even greater.

The soldiers of the new annexed army were shouting and howling under Zhao Shicai's order, and when they were about to storm the gate of the village, a Thunderbolt army team quietly appeared in front of the gate of Wanjiazhai, which was Chen Hu's first company. In great contrast to the noisy and noisy new annex army, this team of 100 people was silent, and they slowly pushed down the mountain with neat steps under the command of Cao Ergou.