"Mayor, take this knife and use it to kill the enemy at critical moments." Chen Qingfu took off the knife from his waist and handed it to Wu Tong.
Wu Tong subconsciously took the waist knife.
I already knew in my heart that things had reached the final moment.
"Mayor, the enemy cavalry is approaching." A peasant soldier ran over to deliver the message.
Chen Qingfu held the gun in his hand and walked quickly towards the courtyard wall in front, stepping on the bench under the courtyard wall and exposing his eyes outside the courtyard wall.
he noticed.
The enemy cavalry on the street walked slower, and every time they were about to approach a courtyard, they would shoot a few arrows inside before making sure it was safe before approaching.
"Bring all the door panels over and cover your head. Everyone should stop sticking their heads out of the courtyard wall and hiding behind the door panels." Chen Qingfu called over all the peasants and soldiers who were carrying the door panels.
At this moment, all the arrows on the door panel were pulled out, leaving only pits on the door panel.
The peasant soldiers plunged the spearhead of the spear into the door panel, and used the spear to lift the door panel over the heads of other peasant soldiers. Two peasant soldiers raised a door panel, and three peasant soldiers using fire guns could be hidden underneath.
Several door panels were lined up behind the courtyard wall, and the fire gunmen all huddled under the door panels. The fire gun players who had no door panels to hide simply entered the house and hid at the door of the outhouse.
when! when! when!
Several feather arrows hit the door panel and made a noise.
Chen Qingfu leaned against the courtyard wall with his eyes closed, but his ears were paying attention to what was going on outside.
After a few arrows were fired, there were no more archers outside shooting arrows into the yard.
"Hit!" Chen Qingfu shouted, leaned out of the courtyard wall, and fired his firecracker at the enemies on the street outside.
After firing the firecracker, he did not pay attention to catching it, but quickly refilled the firecracker in his hand.
Some peasants and soldiers subconsciously wanted to run after firing the muskets, but they saw that most of the peasants and soldiers did not move. A few peasants and soldiers who were preparing to retreat from the yard retreated.
"Quick, hide it." Chen Qingfu greeted.
At this moment, more than a dozen feather arrows fell from the air, most of which were stuck on the ground in the yard.
The faces of the peasant soldiers who returned turned pale.
If he hadn't come back quickly, he would have been hit by the arrows shot into the yard just now.
boom!
A cannon shot soon sounded.
When Chen Qingfu heard the sound of the cannon, his expression first changed, and then he became happy.
When I first heard the sound of cannons, I thought it was the enemy firing from outside, but then I discovered that the direction of the cannon sounds was not from where the enemy was riding.
This made him understand that it was his own side who fired the shots.
He had not heard the sound of artillery for half a day. He thought that the two gunners operating the Tiger Crouching Cannon were dead, but he did not expect that both the gunners and the Tiger Crouching Cannon were there.
"beat!"
Chen Qingfu exposed his body from behind the wall and fired his musket at the enemy cavalry who were startled by the Crouching Tiger Cannon on the street.
Other peasants and soldiers also began to use fire cannons at the enemy cavalry on the street.
When Chen Qingfu once again loaded the gun in his hand with medicine, leaned out of the courtyard wall, and was about to fire the gun again, he found that except for six or seven corpses, there were no living enemies on the street outside.
Naturally, he didn't think that he had killed all the enemies. The enemies must have retreated first when they saw that the situation was not going well.
"We can't stay in this courtyard anymore, leave now." Chen Qingfu called to the others, jumped down from behind the courtyard wall, and quickly came to the door of the main house.
At this time, Wu Tong, who was hiding in the house, came out and asked, "Are you going to retreat from this yard again?"
Chen Qingfu nodded.
The group of people quickly left the yard, but just as they were going to the yard next door, two gunners came over with the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
"Mayor, deputy mayor."
As soon as the two gunners came over, they took the lead in greeting Wu Tong and Chen Qingfu, the temporary deputy mayor.
"We'll talk later. Let's get out of here first." Chen Qingfu said to the two people, and then quickly walked through the yard behind.
He passed several yards in a row, changed direction, and crossed an alley laterally before he stopped.
And in this courtyard, there were many farmers and soldiers using long guns staying guard.
The team, which was originally less than twenty people, merged with the peasants and soldiers left behind, and the number suddenly increased several times to more than eighty people.
"All firecrackers should check their weapons." Chen Qingfu reminded the farmers and soldiers who used firecrackers, fearing that these people were too nervous and forgot to clean the barrels.
Wu Tong came to the two gunners and asked: "What happened before? Didn't I say we would retreat after the fight? Why didn't you retreat? There were others, why were you two alone?"
"They are all dead. The two of us happened to be on the roof and escaped the enemy's arrows. Almost all the peasants and soldiers who were left behind were killed by the enemy's arrows. Those who survived were also killed by the enemies who came up from behind. ." One of the gunners said.
Wu Tong looked ugly.
But everyone was dead, so he couldn't complain anymore. He also knew that the training time of these peasant soldiers was too short and was far inferior to the peasant soldiers in Datong.
"It's on fire. The enemy is setting fire to the village." The peasant soldiers who had been hiding on the roof to observe the enemy's situation saw the thick smoke rising in the distance and hurriedly shouted to everyone in the yard.
Some peasants and soldiers in the crowd looked bad.
These peasants and soldiers are all from the village, and several of them have houses near the village entrance.
"What should we do next?" Wu Tong asked Chen Qingfu nervously.
At this time, he had no idea and placed all his hopes on Chen Qingfu.
Chen Qingfu's face was heavy and he said: "It seems that the enemy has suffered several losses and is unwilling to take risks entering the village. He wants to force us out of the village."
"When we get outside, we become targets and have no place to hide." Wu Tong looked at Chen Qingfu and said.
Although he didn't know much about military matters, he also knew that facing hundreds of enemy cavalry, once these people left the village, they would only become lambs on other people's chopping boards.
"We have no choice but to fight." Chen Qingfu said in a serious tone.
Wu Tong gritted his back molars and said bitterly: "It's up to you. We will fight with them. We will drag one of them to hell even before we die."
"Check your weapons and prepare to leave the village before the fire comes." Chen Qingfu shouted to the peasants and soldiers in front of him.
Peasants and soldiers who use spears do not need to prepare anything, but a dozen peasants and soldiers who use firecrackers start to load the firecrackers with medicine. After leaving the village, the enemy may not give them time to reload the medicine.
The medicine uses fixed gunpowder, with a paper shell, and is put into the barrel of the gun to prevent the projectiles inside from falling out.
Seeing that everyone was almost ready, Chen Qingfu took the lead and walked out of the yard and started running along an alley outside the door in the direction leading to the outside of the village.
Nearly a hundred peasant soldiers made a great noise, and were quickly discovered by the enemy cavalry who were lighting fires everywhere.
