Chapter 216 Small Cannon Kills
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"Second brother, there are more and more thieves out of the valley. Let's not take action?"
Looking at the valley entrance, teams of thieves went out. Yang Dayan, who had leaned forward and looked around for a long time, became anxious. He couldn't help but look back at his second brother who was holding stones with Chen Sheng in the snow and shouted.
"Big eyes, you will be someone who will lead troops sooner or later. It is a taboo to be restless and impatient."
Gao Jin said without raising his head, and in the snow in front of him was a long strip of stones, divided into three sections.
Yang Dayan simply stopped looking at the large-scale thief army at Gukou, and turned to his second brother and Chen Sheng. Then he saw the team of stones and looked at the circled middle part, so he understood that his second brother was planning to attack the thief army's central army convoy.
At this time, all the friends around had already surrounded him. Gao Jin glanced at Chen Sheng and signaled Chen Sheng to explain.
"Second brother and I all know that everyone is anxious to wait, but everyone has seen this bandit army formation. There are mainly green forest bandits in front. Although there are many soldiers and horses, they are always a mob, and it is not worth our waste of artillery fire."
Chen Sheng used his hand to push the pile of stones with the largest number of stones away and pushed them to the side, then pointed to the pile of stones representing the convoy in the middle and said, "The leader of the thief army is cautious. His central army personally guards the logistics supplies. The generals and servants are in the back hall again. If we usually don't have the chance to move the convoy, but now?"
Seeing Chen Sheng looking around, Yang Dayan and the others laughed knowingly. Now everyone knew that the second brother was going to let the green forest bandits out of the valley and separate them from the baggage convoy and the main force of the thief army.
Gao Jin clapped his hands at this time and stood up and said, "Everyone understands it. Once the thief convoy arrives at the valley entrance later, it will be the time for us to take action, but we need to remember that we cannot be too greedy. Let the thief convoy pass half of the thief convoy first, and then we will take action."
Although the plan is to eliminate food, if Gao Jin is really willing to give up, he can really use most of the food and supplies of the thief army to fight, but if he does that, his losses will not be able to bear.
"A Guang and I will go to set up the powder keg later. You can follow A Sheng's order."
Gao Jin looked at everyone and said, then went into the cave with Shen Guang. The mountain wall must be blown up. Only when it collapsed can the thieves' army be killed. The two tiger squat cannons and other bird guns in their hands can cause limited damage.
In the cave where the bonfire is lit, it is warm and dry. Four buckets of black gunpowder are placed in a corner not far away. On the side is a long lead wire connected with the fuse rope of the bird gun. Gao Jin took Shen Guang to the side of the four buckets of black gunpowder and said to Shen Guang, "A Guang, once you hear the cannon sound, remember to run away after lit the fire. Never turn around, just climb up the rope, do you understand?"
"I understand, second brother."
Shen Guang said with a light flashing in his eyes. Since everyone used guns and cannons, they are quite obsessed with firearms. Everyone wants to hear it. The flowering shells are so big that they are so powerful when they are shot out. Now these four barrels of black gunpowder are really going to explode. I really don’t know how powerful it is.
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Put on a white burqa and covered the four barrels of black gunpowder with white cloth as a cover. Gao Jin and Shen Guang slowly slid along the rope that had been left on the cliff to the left wall of the valley entrance on the left where the blasting mouth had already been dug.
The two of them were very slow, but fortunately, the weather that had been cleared for half a day became hazy again. Snowflakes floated in the sky, especially at the entrance of the valley, the north wind whistled by, and sobbed like ghosts and wolves. No thief army was willing to stay in this wind and get frozen.
Even if Gao Jin accidentally encountered the snow on the cliff and large pieces of snow dust fell into stones, it did not alarm any thieves below. Shen Guang was as light as a feather, and he had already arrived at the place when Gao Jin was still one-third away.
After a while, Gao Jin stepped on the ground with his two buckets of black gunpowder, "A Guang, come and get the wind."
Gao Jin opened several large holes that he had been digging out yesterday after working a lot of effort, stuffed four buckets of black gunpowder into it, and at the same time, he connected the fuse he had rubbed from the holes left in the four buckets of black gunpowder. After the four pieces were pulled out, he continued to rub them together again, leaving them one meter long.
After doing all this, Gao Jin looked into the valley and could already see the hazy shadow of the convoy. After handing the fuse to Shen Guang, Gao Jin said solemnly, "Remember, run after clicking, don't hesitate."
"Don't worry, second brother."
Chen Guang took the thick and long fuse and replied with an excited look on his face.
At this time, Gao Jin, who had already pulled the rope and climbed back, stopped, looked back at the A-di, whose face looked a little like Yang Dayan was trying to death, and couldn't help but say, "A Guang, you have to remember that a real man never looks back at the explosion!"
"I understand, second brother, just go there with confidence, leave it to me."
Hearing Chen Guang's answer, Gao Jin didn't say anything anymore. Without two barrels of gunpowder, he fell a little faster than when he climbed up. I thought that when he changed this brother, he would only be faster and there should be no problem.
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At the terrain of the gourd inside the valley entrance, because the valley entrance is narrow, the convoy that followed slowly stopped and gathered together.
Zhang Jian, who was riding on the horse, looked around and couldn't help but feel shocked that this place was really an excellent ambush. There were cliffs on both sides of the valley. If there were enemy troops ambushing them and bombarding them with artillery, I was afraid that they would all be explained here.
However, Zhang Jian quickly laughed at himself with a sarcasm. At present, most of the border troops in Yansui Town do not like to use firearms, but are proud to fight immediately. This Jedi, which is suitable for ambushing with firearms, needs to be used in quantity. Gao Yanluo heard that he had firearms raised from the arsenal of the General's Office, but there were only five tiger squat cannons, but he didn't know if he had a skilled gunner there.
For a moment, Zhang Jian couldn't help but think a little far away. It was not until Sha Dediao came to his side. At this time, the snow in the sky had slowly become heavier. "Zhang Baihu, this convoy has already gone out nearly half. It seems that Gao Yanluo really pulled a broken flag and scared us halfway!"
Although Sha Dedia helped Zhang Jian a lot, at this time, he was idle with the old men of the generals, so he couldn't help but come over to complain. You know, on the road ahead, since Zhang Jian saw the blood-word white banner, he was suspicious. If it weren't for the heavy wind and snow, he would have sent out a wide range of sentries to detect scouts all the way.
"What Deputy General Sha said is that I was too cautious."
Zhang Jian rarely did not refute Sha Dediao. He was still a little disappointed at this time. Gao Yanluo seemed to be a warrior who only knew how to be brave, at most he was a enemy of a hundred people.
Sha Dediao looked at Zhang Jian who was so happy to admit his mistake, and for a moment she opened her mouth and didn't know what to answer.
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"Brother Sheng, it's almost done!"
Yang Dayan, who had almost poked half of his body out of the cliff, turned around and shouted, with a layer of snow falling on his body, "I've counted it. If there are seven more vehicles in the convoy, it's half way."
"Okay, prepare to fire a fire."
Chen Sheng nodded, and then Yang Dayan, who had been impatient, quickly leaned back and greeted his partner with Chen Sheng. After erecting two tiger squatting cannons, he nailed them to the ground, and then loaded the projectiles and the medicine lead.
Behind the few people, the others also started loading with bird guns. The second brother had instructed that once the cannon was fired, the bird gun would have to be fired continuously and could not stop for a moment. This would make the enemy mistakenly think that there was a large group of people lying in ambush, making them even more panicked.
"Brother Sheng, then I'm not polite."
Yang Dayan, who had been loading the bullet, took the fire note from his partner next to him and lit the lead of his tiger squatting cannon.
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"Boom... Rumble!"
With the huge explosion, Sha Dediao, who was originally thinking of comforting Zhang Jian, was thrown off the ground by the frightened war horse. At this time, Zhang Jian's expression suddenly changed. He saw a large cart shot by a cannonball not far away. Several infantrymen near the car were hit on the face by the explosive lead-shooting iron balls, and lying to the ground wailingly.
Before he could react, the second shell exploded in the valley again, and then the sound of the bird guns was loud. From time to time, someone was shot and fell to the ground. Although less than ten people were injured or killed, the rumbling sound echoed at the entrance of the valley made the entire army in chaos.
The team of personal soldiers under Zhang Jian was the most elite. They immediately arrived around Zhang Jian to protect him. At this time, Sha Dediao, who had climbed up from the ground, also rolled and crawled to him. He heard the sound of gunfire sounding like fried beans, "Zhang Baihu, we are ambushed!"
"Continue to let the convoy go out of the valley!"
Zhang Jian started to shout, "At this time, you must not be distracted. "The enemy does not have many guns and cannons, don't panic. The shield hands go to the side of the convoy to cover the protection."
With Zhang Jian's stern scolding, the originally chaotic team finally restored some order. Zhang Jian finally established some prestige these days, not to mention that he was the one who personally led the army. When he heard him give orders, he acted according to his orders.
Amid the shouts of Zhang Jian's personal soldiers, the convoy continued to move, and the infantry holding the shield also came to the side of the convoy to cover. After calming down, they realized that although the sound of firing guns sounded dense, as the general said, the enemy's guns were not many.
On the cliff, the tiger squat cannon that had been loaded again roared, and two flowering bullets fell into the convoy, blowing the two cars down, but there were shields on the side, so many people did not hurt like in the first round.
Zhang Jian had already got off his horse, and there were several personal soldiers guarding with shields next to him, "Train the cars aside and keep walking, don't stop."
Zhang Jian roared angrily while searching for the source of the ambush. However, the north wind at the entrance of the valley was howling, and everything he saw was white, and he could not see where the enemy was at all!
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Chapter completed!