stubborn thief

Chapter 98
Feng Hao shouted angrily at the top of the city. The cannonball broke the flagpole recently, but was caught by Lu Cheng.

He even suspected that the artilleryman deliberately set the gun off-track, and finally rolled up his sleeves and aimed at it himself.

The artillerymen must have misplaced their guns on purpose, but even if they didn't, it was impossible to hit them right.

Don't say now, until the Industrial Revolution, there was no artillery that could shoot anywhere at a distance of four or five hundred paces.

About the aiming direction, the target with the error of three or four steps wide and seven or eight steps deep.

If it can hit, it means that it is the best gun, the roundest shell and the best gunner, all of which are indispensable.

Liu Chengzong knew that Feng Ning was in a hurry, but this was really not something that could be decided by personal will.

Aiming at seventy steps with a bow is already smaller than a cluster of arrows, let alone four or five hundred steps.

Want to hit someone at this distance?

The artillery's artillery has been unable to play a decisive effect, it depends entirely on the accuracy of the target.

He reassured: "It's okay, General Lu has great courage, but he can't run away."

Liu Chengzong found on the battlements that Guanxia Archers were retreating with Lu Cheng's army.

After the guns were broken, they also retreated in multiple formations, but they charged more and more slowly, and the gunpowder in the medicine pot was often spilled outside when filling the medicine.

Some people are so tired that they need to walk with knives, and some people can't walk anymore.

Just sit on the ground and fill the gun tube with medicine.

If it wasn't a life-or-death war, they wouldn't have persisted in this situation for anything else.

"The sergeant's physical strength is so strong, what's the use of motivating his soldiers?"

Liu Chengzong chuckled lightly: "Even if I tell them to rush out, is it possible that they can still run past our horses?"

He looked up at the sky, and a white light had already emerged from the east, casting a gray layer on the ground.

In the dead gray, more and more officers and troops gathered around Lu Cheng, from dozens to hundreds, and even formed a phalanx of more than [-] people.

It's just that the organization of the soldiers has been disrupted, and people only know that they want to follow the officers, but they don't necessarily follow their own officers.

Some teams have more people, some have fewer people, and the phalanx formed by these teams looks extremely scattered.

The sky was a little brighter, and a confrontation between the bandit soldiers outside and the officers and troops inside gradually formed.

Cao Yao tried to command the thieves to attack twice, but the thieves lacked the will to fight, and before the battle, the people in front retreated.

But the officers and soldiers couldn't move either, those sitting inside and those standing outside, and the messy formation was crumbling.

Only the last straw could crush them to death.

Liu Chengzong believes that he is the straw.

The squeaking heavy door opened, and someone shouted from the city gate: "Put down your weapons and capture them, save your life!"

boom!
boom!
There were several officers and soldiers sitting scattered outside the gate. Some stubbornly shot the bullets in their hands towards the city gate, and some stopped making unnecessary resistance and threw their weapons aside.

The distance was very far, and their only remaining strength was not able to accurately aim the heavy bird gun. Only one projectile hit the thief soldiers in the city gate hole.

The lead shot didn't pierce the armor.

The cavalry spread out from the city gate to both sides like flowing water, each with bows and spears running towards the officers who were still carrying weapons.

Someone struggled to get up, staggered and tried to swing the knife. In a blink of an eye, they either fell under the arrow, or the clamped line gun was vigorously pushed up, and then fell heavily to the ground.

The foot soldiers then stepped forward, and three or five people surrounded a prisoner, took away their armor and weapons, and bound them outside Guancheng.

When Liu Chengzong rode his horse and went to meet outside the city, Cao Yao was galloping in front of the horses and shouted to persuade him to surrender.

No one surrendered, people were all around, wondering what was going on.

Soon, someone in the official formation waved a flag and walked out. The man approached without weapons and said, "I am the commander of Yanshuiguan. We surrender, and we have two requirements. We must save the lives of the soldiers."

"Hey, what are you asking for when you are surrounded?"

Cao Yao sneered on the horse's back, then looked at Liu Chengzong and whispered, "You make up your mind, the brothers are really tired, you have to sleep in the pass for an hour before leaving."

Liu Chengzong was very surprised. The guerrillas were so hard-hearted just now that they dared to burn the flag at night to lead the way for the soldiers, but they would not be able to escape, so they directly sent people to surrender.

It seems that he is a person with a more flexible moral bottom line.

Maybe we can wrap him up and rebel together!

Liu Chengzong was in great need of such a person as a mid-level general who directly commanded the troops on the front line.

He made up his mind in his heart that as long as they really surrendered, even if they were tied, they would throw the guerrillas on a mule and carry them away.

He waved his entourage to go to the city to fetch the rope, he thought for a moment and said, "Okay, put down your weapons, take off your armor, and go out one by one to descend, not to kill you.

What about the second one? "

Bao Bao didn't say anything, just turned around and made a gesture to the official army.

It seemed that they had already made up their minds to surrender before that.

The officers and soldiers gave way in the team, and then put down their weapons in pieces to give up resistance, and the flashed channel led to the center of the team.

There was a man with a helmet and armor, leaning on the flagpole and standing obliquely. Most of the battle flag was burned, and the cloth armor was stained with blood from the left rib, and it was dyed red to the skirt of the armor.

Mr. Bao turned around and said, "The cannon destroyed the flagpole, and the general was injured by wood chips. At the end, let us surrender. I hope the leader will not destroy the body of General Lu."

"died?"

Liu Chengzong looked at him immediately, seeing that it didn't look fake, but worried that he was getting close to the plot, so he didn't worry, and said, "Why am I destroying his body, and no one will repay me, let your people take off their armors? ."

When Mr. Bao turned around and returned to the formation, Liu Chengzong frowned and squinted, took a deep breath, sighed heavily, and said to Cao Yao, "Why did he die? After twelve rounds of four cannons in the city, he escaped. .

A person with such a big life was finally killed by a small piece of wood? "

Cao Yao was so happy to see him, yawned and asked someone to give orders to the guns and thieves. He saw the officers and soldiers as dead, and was careful to deceive them, and then he said: "What's the matter, I didn't let you ride alone into the army to kill him. ,Feel uncomfortable?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head.

Sometimes he is a little reckless, but it is a desperate effort after weighing the situation, not a blind eye.

There are not many people around the enemy general, and he is separated from the troops, and he can charge with horsepower.

People standing in the army formation, it can not help.

"I have the self-knowledge that I don't care about the second master's ability, so I won't do the second master's business... This way of guerrilla, where is my hometown?"

As they were talking, the horsemen brought ropes from the city, and in the twilight of the early morning, they began to surrender.

Let Wei Qianer go to Shiban Mountain as a sentry scout, Liu Chengzong arranged everything around him, and then said with a bit of disappointment: "When we leave, sending two prisoners to send their general's body back to his hometown is a good man.

Originally, I wanted to kidnap him, but who knew that he didn't have that life, and I didn't have that life either. "

Cao Yao nodded in response: "Okay, I'll arrange this matter later... It is estimated that there will be no chasing troops for two or three days, so should I extend it?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head: "In case there is a man like Li Bei rushing forward, we will definitely not be able to outrun him with our current physical condition, crossing the river, crossing the Yellow River and entering Shanxi."

"Who do we know when we go to Shanxi? We're not familiar with each other. You can't count on me. I've only lived in Datong, and I'm not familiar with other places."

"Wait for a while, the soldiers entering Shanxi and Shaanxi will not cross the border, take a good rest for a few days and then come back to extend, there will be more battles in the future, just these people..."

Liu Chengzong stretched his arms and said to the dead general who was standing on the flagpole in the middle of the battlefield: "When these people die, Daming's anger will be exhausted."

(End of this chapter)