Zheng Chao squinted his eyes and looked at the bandits on the hillside. He made a calculation in his mind, then nodded and said: "The squatting tiger cannon has a farther range than the fire cannon. It is no problem if it reaches the hillside, but the distance is too far. It depends on how much damage it can do. No, unless we use the Fran machine cannon we brought, the cannon can easily hit it at such a short distance."
Wang Yuncheng said: "Forget about the Fo Lang machine cannon. Try to use the Crouching Tiger cannon to cause damage to the bandits on the hillside."
"Yes, my subordinates will now direct the artillery team to bombard the bandits on the hillside." Zheng Chao turned around and said to several groups of gunners guarding the cart, "The Tiger Crouching Artillery team is ready to target the bandits on the hillside." bandit."
The gunner guarding the side of the cart lifted up the straw mat on top of the cart and pulled out a movable wooden board from the trunk. The muzzle of the Crouching Tiger Cannon leaked out.
The gunner pointed the muzzle of the Tiger Crouching Cannon at the hillside, while the other gunners loaded gunpowder and iron beads.
"Loading complete!"
"Loading complete!"
"Loading complete!"
"Loading complete!"
The gunners of the four squatting tiger cannons shouted one after another.
Zheng Chao looked at the bandits on the hillside, stretched out his right arm and raised the flag, waved it down suddenly, and at the same time shouted: "Let go!"
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The sound of Tiger Crouching artillery firing was louder than the sound of gunfire, and each barrel was filled with hundreds of iron beads.
The iron beads fired by the four tiger crouching cannons were like raindrops, densely shooting at the bandits on the hillside.
Liang Er, who heard the sound of artillery, looked back and was immediately shocked and shouted: "Artillery! The people with the Tiger Flag are firing artillery, run away!"
His shout was heard by Liang Da who was walking in front, and he subconsciously looked back.
When he saw the tiger squatting cannons exposed on the tiger-character flag truck, his face suddenly turned pale and bloodless.
He never thought that the people in the Tiger Character Banner would have cannons, and they would even bring them to Daliang Mountain.
In Datong, only the frontier army had artillery. He thought in a daze that the generals of the frontier army on the east road were coming to Daliang Mountain to suppress bandits again.
"Brother, run away. These tiger-character flag people are so fierce. They even have fucking cannons. What a game!" Liang Er grabbed the stunned Liang Da and dragged him up the mountain to escape. go.
The first round of artillery fire failed to hit a few bandits. Most of the iron beads missed and shot into the soil on the hillside. Only a few unlucky bandits were hit by the iron beads.
Zheng Chao, who was standing on the roof of the four-wheeled cart, saw the results of the first round of shelling and cursed with a black face: "Didn't you fucking eat? Raise the gun head, increase the elevation angle, and prepare for the second round of shelling." shoot."
The gunner next to the Tiger Crouching Cannon cleaned the barrel again, loaded gunpowder and iron beads, and aimed again at the hillside.
"Loading complete!"
…
The four squatting tiger cannons were reloaded. Zheng Chao waved the command flag and shouted: "Let go!"
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The four squatting tiger cannons fired for the second time, and countless iron beads flew in the air, shooting towards the bandits who were retreating on the hillside.
After one round of test cannons, the second round of iron balls fell accurately into the crowd of bandits retreating towards the hillside.
Iron beads like falling rain hit the bandits, easily penetrating each bandit's body. Screams and wails could be heard on the hillside one after another.
Countless iron beads fell down, leaving behind broken limbs and broken arms. The bandit's body was hit by countless iron beads, half of his body was smashed, and the contents of his stomach flowed all over the floor.
In just this round of volley from the squatting tiger artillery, more than ten bandits were wounded and killed on the hillside.
When the barrel of the Tiger Cannon on the four-wheeled cart was cleaned again, most of the bandits on the hillside fled into the mountains. Only a few bandits were still on the hillside, but the distance was too far, and it was difficult for the Tiger Crouching Cannon to fire. These bandits caused too much damage.
Zheng Chao did not let the gunner load gunpowder, but jumped out of the car, walked to Wang Yuncheng, and said, "Vice-captain, the bandits on the hillside have fled into the mountain. Do you need someone from the gun crew to chase them?"
The Tiger Crouching Cannon weighs several dozen kilograms and can be lifted by one person. It is equally useful in the woods.
"There's no rush." Wang Yuncheng said, "Let the artillery crew remove the Crouching Tiger Cannon from the cart and follow me to the hillside behind, where a group of bandits are still hiding."
"Yes." Zheng Chao crossed his right arm across his chest, then turned around and asked the gunners of the gun crew to disassemble the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon was not difficult to dismantle. The two gunners easily removed the Tiger Crouching Cannon from the four-wheel cart, and then handed it to another gunner to carry it on their shoulders, and walked with the gunnery team towards the hillside behind them. go.
"The bandits in Daliang Mountain have been defeated now?" Lao Wu opened his eyes wide, feeling that he won this battle too easily.
The fire cannon team fired a few cannons, and the tiger crouching cannon fired twice, and the battle was over.
From the beginning to the end, the bandits in Daliang Mountain had no chance to get close to the Tiger Flag convoy, let alone hurt anyone.
"Master, is this the end?" Ma Yunjiu asked Liu Heng hesitantly.
The several cottages in Daliang Mountain had a total of eight or nine hundred people, and he couldn't believe that they were defeated so quickly.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "It's not over yet. We only won the first battle for the time being. Most of the bandits fled back to the mountains. The subsequent battles will be hard."
Ma Yunjiu said: "The people in the cavalry know where the several villages in Daliang Mountain are. Why don't we let the people in the cavalry lead the way now?"
"Don't worry, wait until Wang Yuncheng gets rid of the bandits hiding on another hillside." Liu Heng looked at the hillside where he came from.
Wang Yuncheng was rushing over with the fire gun team and the tiger squatting artillery team.
On the hillside, Shi Yunhu sat on the cold ground with his lips pursed.
Kong Lengzi beside him said in a panic: "Master Liang, please retreat. Master Liang and others have already fled back to the mountains."
Shi Yunhu looked at the direction of the Tiger Flag convoy with a sinister gaze, and grabbed a weed on the ground with both hands. Because of too much force, the roots of the grass were pulled out along with the soil.
Before, he was worried that the people of Tiger Character Banner would be defeated quickly due to the joint efforts of Erliang Mountain and Panjiazhai. But now he discovered that the people of Tiger Character Banner were far more powerful than he thought.
As a result, his heart went crazy with jealousy.
He was even thinking in his heart that if he was not surrounded by the army at Tianchengwei, maybe everything about Liu Heng would belong to him now.
The iron farm, the village, the horse and mule farm, the artillery... everything belonged to him.
Seeing Shi Yunhu staring directly in the direction of the Tiger Flag convoy, Kong Lengzi couldn't help pushing Shi Yunhu hard. He said: "Master, run away quickly. The people from the Tiger Flag are coming towards us. There are also Those cannons were also carried over by them. If we don’t leave, the brothers really won’t be able to retreat back to the mountains.”
Shi Yunhu threw away the weeds in his hand and said coldly: "Retreat, go back to the village, no, go to Erliang Mountain."
"Quickly retreat! Quickly retreat!" Kong Lengzi waved to the bandits hiding on the hillside to retreat into the mountains.
The bandits on the hillside had long seen the disastrous defeat on the other side of the hillside. As soon as they got the order to retreat, they retreated swarm towards the mountain behind them.
Before Wang Yuncheng and his men on the road could approach, Shi Yunhu and his bandits had already retreated from the hillside into the mountains.
Zheng Chao, who was rushing towards the hillside, saw this and said to Wang Yuncheng: "Vice captain, the bandits on the hillside fled back to the mountain. Do you want to chase them?"
"They can run fast!" Wang Yuncheng spat on the ground and immediately ordered, "Retreat!"
The team was brought back to the Tiger Flag motorcade.
Liu Heng also saw the bandits on the hillside fleeing into the mountains, and said: "Rest where you are for half an hour. After half an hour, the artillery team and the gunmen will enter the mountain."
