Chapter 207 Breaking the Cauldron

As he spoke, there was a thunderous sound of gunfire at the foot of the mountain. The projectiles flew to the wall of the cottage and hit the wall heavily. All the soldiers of the Xingtian Army immediately lowered their bodies and hid behind the thick pile of arrows. The shells happened to hit Xiao Tianjian's position, almost After wiping Xiao Tianjian's body, he flew over and bombarded the gate building after Xiao Tian's fitness. Suddenly, a piece of gravel dust rose up. The falling dust almost buried Xiao Tianjian and Liu Yaoben. A guard was shot on the spot, and his body was immediately torn into two sections and buried in the collapsed earth and stone. Medium.

Fortunately, Xiao Tianjian also reacted quite quickly. He threw Liu Yaoben to the ground in time and protected Liu Yaoben with his body. Liu Yaoben was not injured, and Xiao Tianjian was wearing armor. Although he was hit by a few bricks and stones, he was basically unharmed.

Tietou quickly rushed over and helped Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian stood up with a gray face, cursed and shook the dust on his body. He pulled up Liu Yaoben under him, looked at Liu Yaoben's slightly scared face, patted him and said, "War is not as simple as you think. You haven't really done a good job on the battlefield. Ready, but the courage of your youth camp is commendable. I'm very gratified that you don't think about anything now. Learn what we teach you well, and it will come in handy one day! This kind of thing is not urgent. You should understand why I arranged it like this! Go down, boy! Take your little brothers and watch us do it from afar! I hope you can summarize more from it!"

After listening to this, Liu Yao stopped insisting, and immediately nodded with his legs and said, "Yes! Thank you for your advice, General! We won't come to make trouble for the general anymore!" After saying that, he ran down the wall.

Xiao Tianjian turned around, pushed away a few guards blocking him, patted the dust on his body, and scolded with a smile, "It seems that the gunners of these heavenly officers have grown up. Today, as soon as the gun is fired, it will give me a horse!" Ha ha! Get out of the way, don't block me, come, pass the order to the brothers of the artillery team, and don't be polite to them. Give me the color first, and then beat the officers and soldiers who came up!"

After a while, several medium-sized Franco machine guns and three three-pound and two six-pound guns on the mountain also roared one after another. These guns are assumed to be on the turret specially prepared for them. The shooting angle is very wide, which is very conducive to aiming, and the aimers of each gun have basically received Gao Su's training. Compared with the officers and soldiers, the training is quite sufficient. After successive wars, it is by no means the same level as the gunners of the officers and soldiers in terms of aiming accuracy. Although I dare not say where to fight, I am still quite sure when dealing with the target. After careful aiming, Xing Tianjun's cannon is even against The artillery array of the officers and soldiers under the mountain was also colored, and several shells accurately fell into the artillery array of the officers and soldiers. On the spot, two second general guns of the officers and soldiers were overturned, and several gunners of the officers and soldiers were killed.

Zuo Guang, who was in the middle army, was full of blue veins. The gunners of Xing Tianjun were not so much worse than the gunners under his command. Their cannons were accurate. At such a long distance, they could even accurately hit his artillery array, and they were clearly looking at the enemy's fort, but they were anxious. Even if it can't be hit, at least some shells are fired, and I don't know where to fly. I can only fire at the mountain. As for not being able to hit the enemy, it's a useless thing at all. The shell that almost hit Xiao Tianjian just now also depends on luck.

In this way, the number of enemy's artillery is not as large as the Xingtian Army, and the accuracy is not as good as the Xingtian Army. Therefore, at the beginning of the artillery battle, the gunners of the Xingtian Army beat the officers and soldiers to death, and the battle situation showed a one-sided situation.

No one in this era has the concept of suppressing the opponent's artillery with artillery in this era, and Xiao Tianjian undoubtedly took Xing Tianjun to the forefront of the times in this regard. Together with the artillery battle, the relatively accurate suppression of firepower suppressed the officer's artillery. After being counterattacked by Xing Tianjun's artillery, these officers and soldiers' The gunners dodge one after another and did not dare to enter the artillery array to fight back, so that after only two rounds of firing, the officer's artillery array was dumb. Only a few cannons of the Xing Tianjun were still ringing from time to time, aimed at the officers who had just gathered at the mountain pass.

After each solid bullet fell, it happened to fall in front of the army. Although the officers and soldiers were quite well prepared this time and put a row of shields in front of the assembly line to fight against the firepower of the Xingtian Army, in front of these shells, even the heavy shields seemed so vulnerable. Even if the three or two shield cars were smashed by solid bullets, some officers and soldiers hiding behind the shield car were either knocked off on the spot or stabbed to death by broken wood stubble, causing a burst of exclamation among the starting group of officers and soldiers.

Not to mention this, there are still two cannonballs directly falling in the crowd, and two bloody roads were opened in the crowd in an instant. Where the cannonballs flew quickly, the broken limbs and arms soared into the air, and the human flesh flew everywhere. The sad screams suddenly filled the whole battlefield, but Zuo Guang was also cruel this time, no He alone escorted his officers and soldiers into the battle, and even a large number of accompanying Xiang Yong, under the supervision of the supervision team, joined the array of attacking the mountains. Most of the villagers were responsible for promoting the heavy shields and carrying heavy wooden rauns, and were responsible for providing cover for the officers and soldiers of the main battle. Such a shelling, for such a dense formation, although The killing effect is good, but it can't hurt their roots. The two bloody alleys have existed for a short time, and they are immediately filled by dense crowds. The injured can only lie at the feet of countless people, making a sad scream, and soon they are trampled to death.

Behind the offensive formation, there was a fierce supervisor team. Everyone held a bright ghost knife in their hands. As long as they saw a person break away from the formation and tried to retreat, they immediately waved their knives and killed the fugitives on the spot, forcing the generals in front of them to slowly towards the mountain gate arch. Go up.

This battle is different from the previous attack. Zuo Guangxian can be said to have made a plan to break the boat. As soon as he took action, the elite of the general was escorted up. Although the artillery fire of the Xing Tianjun was very accurate, it repeatedly destroyed the shield car in front of the array, so that the officers and soldiers hiding behind the shield car flew flesh and blood, but there will be a new shield immediately. The car blocked the gap and continued to attack the mountain.

Less than 200 steps away, the officers and soldiers paid a considerable price under the artillery fire of the Xing Tianjun, but this time they failed to break up the formation of the officers and soldiers as before. A large number of officers and soldiers cursed loudly. Under the supervision of the supervision team, you had to push me forward, and a long ladder was like a centipede. Generally, carry it on their shoulders, slowly squirm under the wall, and approach the wall step by step.

Liu Bao stood on a wall, staring at the attacking crowd of officers and soldiers. Seeing that the officers had entered 60 steps outside the fortress wall, he shouted vigorically: "Fire!"

A row of fireshots, even if they took a step forward, put the birdshot on the arrow pile. At the order of the officer in the right-hand row, they collectively pulled down the dragon head of the bird. After hearing a bean-like sound, more than a hundred bullets hit the crowd of officers and soldiers, and there was a blood fog.

But after all, the officers and soldiers have made enough preparations this time. A large number of shield cars and hand-held wooden barrels were placed in front of the queue, which effectively resisted the usual platoon gun shooting of Xing Tianjun. Most of the projectiles were hit on the shield car or wooden linters, which was not much for the officers and soldiers hiding behind.

Seeing that this method was effective, the officers and soldiers immediately became arrogant again. In this battle, Zuo Guang first said clearly that whoever is the first to attack the fortress can be rewarded with 200 taels of silver. Those who kill or catch the head of the thief alive will be rewarded with 3,000 taels of silver. There must be brave men under the heavy reward. Few soldiers do not want to win such a lot. So as soon as they started today, the officers and soldiers also showed a strong fighting spirit. In the face of the fierce attack of Xing Tianjun's artillery fire, they did not collapse as before, but continued to arch towards the mountain gate.

After the official army entered 50 steps outside the wall, a large number of officers and archers also came out one after another and began to fight back against the wall. Countless arrows fell on the wall like flying locusts. Immediately, some soldiers of the Xing Tianjun fell to the ground.

A fireman just stepped into the front row. Just as he was about to put down the bird's gun and aim, an arrow flew to his face and hit his face. An arrow shot into his eyes. The pain made him screamed bitterly. After losing the bird's hand, he fell to the ground and twitched violently. After a while, he swallowed his breath and died on the wall.

And the officers watched the scene indifferently and continued to shout calmly: "Aim! Open fire!"

Another row of firearms fired collectively, killing a group of officers and soldiers who were shooting arrows or shooting arrows under the wall. Then the officers waved their hands, and a group of soldiers of the prepared barracks immediately grabbed the wall and grabbed the injured brothers on the wall under the wall. Those who died were empty. On the ground, the wounded were immediately sent to the medical camp in the village for treatment.

But after all, the officers and soldiers were cruel this time. Although the casualties were very heavy, they did not have the intention of retreating as before. In front of them was the copycat of the Xing Tianjun, and behind them was the Xueliang's big knife. No matter which direction they ran, they could not escape death. So many officers and soldiers simply made up their determination to fight. The idea of facing up his head didn't care about the fallen robes beside him at all, and continued to approach the wall.

For a moment, the wall under the wall boiled like boiling water. The dense officers and soldiers raised shields to cover the top of their heads and leaned against the wall. Then the long ladders like centipede leaned against the wall and slowly began to stand up.

In the face of such a sea of people tactics, although Xing Tianjun's platoon shooting has a great advantage, once the number and will of the enemy exceed their shooting density, such platoon shooting seems a little thin. Although a team of firemen come forward to cast platoon guns, they still can't resist. The officers and soldiers came to the wall desperately.

When watching a large number of officers and soldiers squeeze under the wall in front of him, Liu Bao couldn't help but feel a little numb to such a scene and scolded, "Dang! It's really lifeless! You can't beat them down like this. It seems that the officers and soldiers have spent a lot of effort this time!"

Xiao Tianjian was still standing at the gate and watching the situation in front of him. He sighed slightly. He said that Zuo Guangxian was still a general after all. He could actually dispatch the morale of the officers and soldiers to such an extent and burst out such combat effectiveness. If it hadn't been for his Xing Tianjun stationed here today, I'm afraid it would have been an ordinary Rebel. At this time, he can't stand it anymore. Unfortunately, Zuo Guangxian chose the wrong opponent this time, but chose his Xing Tianjun as his opponent, so today he is destined to break the halberd here.