Chapter 157 Shi Lei's First Show

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Several unlucky people who rushed to the front were immediately shot or shot. They were knocked down on the open space outside the temple. The officers and soldiers who suffered a loss stopped cursing and gave the knife hand to the front, and raised the shield to block the bullets shot from the mountain wall.

"Archer! Where is the archer? Come up, shoot arrows for me and hold them down! The knife player went forward and attacked the temple gate for me! Go find a piece of wood, carry it and knock the temple door open for me and kill it! Whoever is the first to kill into the temple, let him choose first!" Liu Fang got off his horse in the back and rushed up, busy directing the generals to adjust.

The thief soldiers on the mountain wall kept shooting arrows at the outside, but in addition to the first wave of several officers and soldiers, after the officers and soldiers were transferred to the front, the effect was no longer obvious. Although several waves of arrows were released, they could not be put on several more officers and soldiers outside the temple.

Looking at the knife players in front of him who had blocked the opponent's counterattack, the officers and soldiers who had just suffered a setback came to the spirit again. Dozens of archers were given to the front and shot each other with the thieves on the mountain wall. The thieves were soon suppressed and no longer dared to lie blatantly on the gap of the gable. Shoot the arrows out.

Moreover, in order to suppress the thief soldiers on the mountain wall, the officers and soldiers brought up two boxes of bees from the bottom of the mountain and put them on the outside of the temple. After lighting the fire, they flew to the gable wall of the temple with gunpowder smoke. The nailed gable wall was like a hedgehog, and two thieves lying on the gable wall and tried to shoot arrows out. Suddenly, the other thief soldiers were suppressed and couldn't raise their heads.

As soon as they saw that the thieves were suppressed and could not fight back, a group of villagers cut down a not-so-rough pine tree outside the temple from behind, casually cut off the branches, and then carried the trunk and rushed up.

There was a faint roar of the thief soldiers in the temple, which was faintly mixed with the panicked crying of women, which made these officers and soldiers outside the temple cheer up. One by one waiting for the mountain gate to be opened, they rushed in to kill people and rob money and play with women.

The knife players lined up forward, raised the shield to cover the top of their heads, and slowly approached the temple. When they approached 20 steps, some officers and soldiers with fire and three-eyed guns with the army began to fire. There was a sound of gunfire, a mass of gunfire rose up, and the lead bullets crackled on the temple gate. There are dense small holes left on the dilapidated temple gate, but although the temple gate is broken, it is still made of thick wood. Although the lead bomb leaves a lot of small holes on it, there are not many lead that can really penetrate, but even so, the thief soldiers inside still exclaimed.

A group of villagers was carrying the tree trunk of the newly cut pine tree, rushed out of the array, shouted the horn and rushed towards the temple gate. There was a loud sound. The temple gate shook violently, and a lot of dust fell from the gate tower, but the temple gate only shook, but it was not immediately knocked open.

When the officers and soldiers saw the temple gate shaking, they immediately shouted, and became more and more energetic. They clenched their weapons one by one, and were ready to attack the mountain temple.

At this time, in the Stone Buddha Temple, only the dozens of soldiers led by Feng Gouzi stood near the gable and shouted. A team of armored soldiers lined up neatly in the open space in front of the hall, looking at the direction of the temple gate indifferently, but did not make any sound.

The two rescued women hid in the shabby side hall and howled from time to time, but there was not a tear. Instead, they looked out curiously from time to time.

Xiao Tianjian pressed the handle of the knife around his waist and stood on the steps in front of the collapsed hall. He coldly listened to the strange screams of the officers and soldiers outside the temple, the sound of fire and the loud thumping sound of the temple door being hit.

A soldier quickly stretched out his head and looked outside the gable, squatted down and shouted, "They are close to the outside of the gable!"

Gao Cheng, who was taken in to Xing Tianjun by Xiao Tianjian earlier, and two soldiers carried a wooden box to the bottom of the gable. He bent down and opened the box, revealing round stone eggs bigger than his fist. These round stones were obviously carved out of common local stones. Obviously, there are still traces of carving, which is not too regular. It is strange that there is a wooden plug on each stone egg. There is a small hole in the middle of the wooden plug, from which a long lead is drawn, as if the stone egg has a small braid.

After this period of delicious recuperation in Tianlongzhai, Gao Cheng has become much stronger, and the dishes on his face have already changed to a healthy skin color, making people look much more energetic.

He bent down to take out the stone eggs from the box, and passed them to the soldiers squatting on the gable one by one. With his teeth, he exposed a mouthful of big white teeth, which was both a little excited and a little nervous. He whispered to the people above, "Just throw them out of the wall with the medicine. Don't fall into it. Face to face, otherwise, we will all follow the bad luck!"

The soldiers squatting up smiled and even nodded and agreed. There was a fire fold in his hand. Feng Gouzi also stretched out his head and whispered, "Don't be careless. Be careful. Listen to my orders, and throw it out together! Did you hear that?"

The soldiers lying on the low ladder were ready, holding a stone egg in one hand and a fire fold in the other.

"Listen to me! Light the fire! Throw it away!" Feng Gouzi suddenly shouted and quickly covered his ears.

The soldiers lying on the low ladder hurriedly put the fire folds on the lead on the stone egg. Hearing the hissing sound, the lead was ignited and a faint blue smoke came out.

Then the dozen soldiers squatting on the low ladder stood up straight, raised their hands and threw the smoking stone egg out of the wall.

At this time, the swordsman of the officers, soldiers and villagers had already been close to the outside of the gable. Suddenly, he saw more than a dozen stone eggs thrown from the gable, which jingled into their crowd. A guy was unlucky and was immediately hit in the head. He knocked the guy unconscious and lay on the ground. .

"Grandma's! Be careful, the thief threw stones out!" Someone immediately exclaimed.

But few people noticed what was wrong with the stones thrown into their crowd. The knife player hurriedly raised the shield over his head for fear of being hit on the head by the stone thrown by the thief.

But it didn't take long for a long time to hear an explosion at the feet of the officers and soldiers gathered outside the temple.

And these explosions were in a series of explosions, and clusters of gunpowder smoke rose in the crowd. Then there was a scream around each explosion point. Then many officers and soldiers fell to the ground wailing. Some people became blood on the spot, and blood was pouring everywhere. The ground rolled with a sad howling.

The sudden sound of explosion shocked the officers and soldiers outside the temple. They didn't know what had happened and scattered and avoided them. Originally, it was an orderly formation, even if they were blown up by this series of explosions.

Liu Fang was also shocked when he stood behind the array. He didn't know what had happened in front of him. Looking at the smoke rising in the crowd in front of him, and the people who dispersed in panic, he quickly ordered to calm down.

But he didn't wait for him to suppress his people and horses, and threw out a pile of smoking stone eggs from the gable. This time, the officers and soldiers who ate a lot of wisdom and the villagers knew that this kind of stone egg was playing a strange thing. As soon as they saw this thing thrown out, they rushed to the place far away from the gable, afraid of being given by this thing again. It blew up.

It really made them guess well. As soon as these stone eggs were thrown out, they exploded soon after landing. Once again, a mass of gunpowder smoke was raised, which made the people close to the stone bomb scream. As a result, many people were put down. Even the team of villagers who were carrying the pine trunks and hitting the temple gate were also hit three of them. The exploding stone bomb was put down by several people. The rest of the people put down the pine tree trunks and fled from the temple gate. This time, the officer's attack was actually knocked back by this.

The officers and soldiers and Xiang Yong, who were still showing off their power just now, couldn't be dignified. They ran farther away from the gable wall and looked at dozens of injured officers and soldiers lying near the gabled. For a moment, they didn't know what to do.

"Report to Mr. Liu Qian, the thief cheated. I don't know what he used. It killed and injured many of us, so that we can't prevent it! Mr. Liu Qian, please make a final order!" A small flag official ran to Mr. Liu Qian and reported to him in panic. There was still blood on his face. A flying stone crumb opened a cut on his forehead, and the man grinned in pain.

The soldiers in the temple stretched out their heads and looked at the officers and soldiers who had been blown out, and immediately cheered. The archers who did not dare to get up and shoot arrows just now stood up again and fired arrows at the officers and soldiers.

Xiao Tianjian smiled at the corners of his mouth. At the beginning, he left the Gao Cheng brothers. Although there was a reason to sympathize with the two of them, the more important reason was Gao Cheng's previous career. Gao Cheng did not let him down. He was really familiar with gunpowder. The last time he hit Li Jiazhuang, because the time was too hasty. Xiao Tianjian made the stone thunder made by Gao Cheng fail to catch up with the battle of Lijiazhuang, but this time he caught up and was used here, and the officers and soldiers outside the temple were honored to become the test product of this new weapon.

To put it bluntly, Shi Lei is a simple stone grenade. Originally, with Xiao Tianjian's idea, he wanted to use this kind of stone thunder equipment to give soldiers to replace the javelin equipped in the army.

However, through the repeated experiments of Gao Cheng and two masons, it was found that if this thing was made too small and too light, the amount of charge was very limited. In addition, the power of black gunpowder was far less powerful than that of the explosives used in later generations, and the power of the explosion was very small, so it could only be made bigger to have power. As a result, after repeated tests, I found that the kind of stone thunder I want to make is useful. At least it has to be as big as they use now. As a result, it weighs about four or five catties. This thing can't be used by ordinary soldiers. No one has such a big arm strength and can throw four or five catties out of meters at a time, so he wants The idea of replacing the javelin with stone thunder can only be abandoned.

But this does not mean that this kind of thing is useless. At least there is no problem with the local mine use. After all, the Ming Dynasty has already invented mines. This thing is not advanced, but just a conceptual problem. Moreover, the most suitable thing is to be a condescending guard. It is thrown directly from a high place and thrown into the enemy crowd. So in order to test the actual combat effect, this time Gao Cheng and dozens of stone thunders he had just built were brought out with the army.

Listening to the screams of ghosts and howls outside and the explosions one after another, although Xiao Tianjian did not see the situation outside, he could guess that this thing should work well.