Jingjiagou drying ground.
Cao Yao opened the cloth covering the donkey cart and was so happy.
There is only one cannon on the two donkey carts. It is a French machine cannon forged from three to four hundred kilograms of copper and iron. It is equipped with a six-round musket and a basin of water, all loaded with ammunition.
The officers and soldiers in the mansion did not dare to show their heads, but they did not give up resistance. They used feather arrows to throw arrows outward in an irregular manner.
Liu Chengzong's thieves and soldiers outside got the order, and the post soldiers and soldiers surrounded the house. Two sentries on the left and right were in the village to surround and suppress the officers and soldiers in various houses and cave dwellings.
Leave enough time for the gun sentry to install the artillery.
Four tiger squatting cannons and a Franco machine were set up on the drying ground. Liu Chengzong raised his bow and shouted for surrender outside the compound.
"Surrender, leave your weapons and armor, and I'll let you go!"
The two hundred bosses were cursing and unmoved: "What a beautiful idea. If you have the ability, come in. Grandpa will never surrender!"
Then bang, bang, two muffled sounds.
Two cylindrical tubes flew up from the courtyard, carrying the smoke and hissing sound of burning medicine wires, and landed outside the courtyard in a parabola.
One of them fell at Liu Chengzong's feet.
Before he could react, his body was suddenly knocked away by Cao Yao, and he was caught off guard and fell far away.
Turning around, he saw Cao Yaofei running and bending down to pick up the small cylindrical pipe that fell on the ground, throwing it back into the courtyard while throwing it to the ground.
boom!
Almost at the same time that Cao Yao threw the column out of his hand, the column that landed not far away next to the Franco machine gun truck exploded.
The iron bullets flew in the large smoke, spraying blood mist on the donkeys pulling the carts, and the two dozen soldiers on the nearby artillery post were also blown away.
When the smoke cleared, some had multiple holes in their bodies, some had their faces bruised with blood from iron bullets, and some injured their arms and legs and fell to the ground screaming in agony.
There were also a few people wearing armor who got up from the ground, covering their ears and looking ashamed, not knowing what happened.
Suddenly people screamed, the donkey was in pain and dragged the artillery cart a few steps away, fell to the ground, brought the artillery cart down, and the musket and gunpowder barrel fell to the ground.
The drying area was in chaos.
Another column was picked up by Cao Yao and thrown into the courtyard. It hit the tile on the courtyard wall and bounced to the ground again, but made no sound.
Cao Yao lowered his head and searched for it on the ground. He picked up a wooden pipe and cursed: "I knocked the pipe off. I scared grandpa to death."
All this happened almost in a moment. Just as they were blasted by cannons and causing chaos, the courtyard door opened and the officers and soldiers came out.
They put on their armor.
Under the protection of the sword and shield men, the archers rushed out in a small formation and fired a few arrows around.
Then came the well-loaded musketeers, fire muskets, three-eyed muskets and bird musket soldiers, and lead pellets bursting into the air.
Youpu Si soldiers raised their swords and started fighting. Before they could rush to the shield bearer, they were aimed at the three-eyed musket protruding from behind the shield. There was a burst of smoke and they were hit with small lead pellets.
Immediately, the figure holding the sword was fixed, and the sword in his palm fell to the ground. He lowered his head and looked at three or four small bleeding holes in his chest and robe. He then slowly took two steps forward, and was pushed to the side by the shield hand and fell down.
Afterwards, the three-eyed gunman showed no expression as he rotated the magic gun, looking for the next target.
For many artillery sentry soldiers, this was not the first time they had been attacked by gunpowder weapons.
The last time may have been in the Alfalfa Valley of Huanglong Mountain, facing Li Bei's artillery bombardment.
Terrifying memories came to mind. Friends who played cards, drank together, and fought against taxes and plundered grain died in this smoke, and were shattered and bloody in the roar of artillery.
This memory drove them to lose their minds, move their limp limbs, and frantically try to escape from the sunbathing area.
The postmen and soldiers were also very panicked. The men and horses were frightened by the explosion and bumped around uncontrollably.
Wei Qian'er's first thought was not to escape. He had no memory of escaping. It was just fear that made him unable to hear the sound. He could only open his eyes and search frantically.
Search for a figure.
Many post soldiers and soldiers were like him. In the panic, people just wanted to find a backbone.
Brave enough, enough to protect the backbone of their survival under artillery fire.
He found it, and many post soldiers and soldiers found it.
After being pushed to the forefront of the front line of the drying field, behind the four Little Tiger Crouching Cannons lined up in a row, Liu Chengzong and Cao Yao stood together, repeating the action of raising their bows and setting arrows.
Cao Yao hurriedly pressed down on a squatting tiger cannon. The nails of this cannon were not nailed firmly.
He shouted loudly: "Stop shooting, how many can you shoot to death? Hurry and find fire!"
Liu Chengzong scattered his bow and arrow and groped wildly on the dead cannon sentry soldier until he pulled out a bloody fire break.
Can't blow.
At this moment, an artilleryman came over and handed over the burning fire folder.
This is very strange, and people are frightened.
You are an artilleryman and I am an artilleryman. Just take the fire note and light the cannon!
Liu Chengzong glared at the artilleryman angrily, grabbed the igniter and moved forward with the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
boom!
Smoke rises from the ground.
The big cannon and the small cannon penetrated the smoke with fire and sprayed toward the courtyard wall thirty or fifty steps away.
The cannonball passed through the small formation of the army, broke people's arms, flew into the sky, and then became heavily embedded in the earthen wall.
The small pieces of lead shot out like countless three-eyed cannons, passing through the formation of the armored officers and soldiers.
The smoke gradually cleared.
The effect was not as good as expected. Many officers and soldiers' robes were beaten with cotton everywhere, but the lead could not penetrate the compacted cotton and then penetrate the iron armor.
Only a few unlucky ones were hit in the face with lead or injured their hands and feet. They jumped up in pain or fell to the ground.
Liu Chengzong was shocked to the point of tinnitus.
Cao Yao was even worse. He shook his arms and took the fire fold away from him, mumbling a few words.
Liu Chengzong couldn't hear clearly either.
He could only see that after the cannon sentry thieves fled in groups, the cavalry and soldiers were gradually converging on him.
The infantrymen on the left and right who were besieging the government troops in the village also moved towards the sunbathing field under the leadership of Gao Xian and Feng Yu.
They have not yet been completely defeated and still have a chance to complete the encirclement.
He patted his ears that kept chirping and was frightened when he saw Hongqi running towards him with a head of red mane swinging. There was actually a bit of anger in his big eyes.
Wei Qian'er came running with a group of postmen. As soon as he dismounted, he saw Liu Chengzong turn over and mount the red flag. He quickly got on the horse again and shouted: "Chief! What should we do?"
Then he saw Liu Chengzong riding towards him on horseback. He was about to ask something, but Liu Chengzong's eyes were not on his face, but on his butt.
When the two horses crossed each other, Liu Chengzong reached out and took away his arrow pot.
Liu Chengzong was having tinnitus and couldn't hear anything. He just saw Wei Qian'er panicking like a fool.
Thinking that he would definitely have no need for the arrows, he came over to take them away.
Just as Wei Qian'er was looking around in confusion, he saw Liu Chengzong taking another five-foot spear from someone else.
He weighed it in his hands, gestured to President Bai who rushed out to direct the battle, and smiled while standing on his horse.
Then he turned his horse's head to face the officers and soldiers rushing out of the compound, and patted the red flag.
The war horse was galloping. Liu Chengzong on the horse had his hands around Hongqi's neck, his right foot was loosened from the stirrup and he stepped over the horse's back, hiding his whole body on the left side of the mount.
A wisp of red galloped across the sunbathing field, and lead bullets and crossbow arrows screamed by the side.
The officers and soldiers in the formation did not notice the unmanned war horse until they were seven or eight steps away. The infantrymen in the formation got out of the way for fear of being trampled by the war horse.
At this moment, a figure suddenly stood up from the left side of the horse. The horse also turned the horse's head in an arc and turned in an arc. The man on the horse held the short spear in his back and threw it towards the formation with a loud shout!
"Go!"
President Bai, who was wearing an iron helmet and tassel, was giving orders when his eyes suddenly widened in horror. In his field of vision, a tasseled spear came closer and closer to him until it was nailed to his chest.
The spearhead penetrated the armor easily and pushed him against the infantry behind him, causing him to lose all his strength quickly.
He could no longer give orders, he could only watch helplessly. In the darkened field of vision, the cavalryman with a red mane on his mount was moving away, throwing several feather arrows into his formation.
The horses' hooves trembled in the drying ground, and the panicked cavalry of the thieves regained their composure, assembled, and charged them again.
