The fire in Liguan Town has been burning for seven days, and now it has finally stopped burning. Everything that can be burned has been burned away, and now all that is left except the charred stones and the lingering smoke of charcoal.

Stewie took a firecracker and fired a bullet, and the bullet hit a retreating Han Eighth Banner soldier. Stewie could clearly see a cloud of red smoke exploding on the guy's back.

The musket in his hand was thrown to the ground, and the auxiliary soldier immediately picked it up and quickly started loading it.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...!

The enemy's artillery was bombarding again, and an artillery shell landed under the city wall. The splashed mud flew into the air, and then hit Stewie like rain.

This is the enemy's cover for the retreat of the infantry. They have launched three attacks this morning. It is estimated that they can stop for a while at noon. After all, soldiers also need to eat. Fighting is a strenuous job. How can you do it without eating well?

The dark hand took out a white-faced steamed bun from his arms. When his fingers grabbed the fat white steamed bun, there were several black marks immediately on it.

This steamed bun was handed out in the morning. From the early morning till now, Shi Dewei has not stopped. When he bites the steamed bun in his mouth, the smell of sweat, earth, and gunpowder smoke all mix into a salty taste. This steamed bun

The skin was soaked with sweat and felt like dough in the mouth.

Southerners like to eat rice but don't like steamed buns. But there is no way, there are only baskets of steamed buns for transportation. My auxiliary soldiers used to be cooks, and the cooks were sent to the city walls. No one has time to make rice dumplings for you!

A cannonball hit the city wall, and the entire city wall shook. Gravels flew randomly, and Stewie quickly used his body to protect the steamed buns. There was only so much for lunch, and the stone foam was stuck to it, and the taste in his mouth was...

It's really too uncomfortable.

It is said that the city wall of Liguan Town was built by the Koreans during the Tang Dynasty. When Li Xiao stationed troops here, he put a layer of granite stones on the outside. The Tatar artillery must get close to such a city wall.

Shooting will work.

There was artillery fire in the city, and after a few of the Tatar artillery were killed, they took over five miles away. Five miles, this is the maximum range of the Tatar artillery.

At this range, artillery cannot be said to be accurate at all. The fired shells either crossed the city wall and hit the city, or fell outside the city wall, exploding large craters in the ground. If you want to hit the city wall, you will hurt people.

, one depends on luck, and the other depends on character.

Stewie's original auxiliary bolt was just unlucky and he leaned on the battlement to load his gun. A cannonball flew out and even the people on the battlement were blown away. Stewie searched for a long time before he found the buttocks under the city.

Stewie's character was very good. When the cannonballs hit him, he would either fly over the top of his head or land on the bottom. Although he had eaten a lot of ashes, he was not so dead that even the King of Hell would have trouble recognizing him.

Chengtou suddenly remembered the captain's shouting: "Everyone who can breathe must be counted!"

There was a sporadic counting sound, and Stewie pricked up his ears to listen. When he heard the number sixty-three, there was no more sound.

When the morning star rose, more than 200 people were pulled to the city wall. Now only these 63 people are left, and this is only half a day. There is still a whole afternoon to endure, according to the order of the commander-in-chief

, they can only change defense when it gets dark. Even if his son is on top, Shi Kefa will never order an early change of defense.

Stewie knows his father better than anyone else! He is a single-minded person, a person who will never look back until he hits the wall. Only such a person is willing to fight such a battle here.

For seven days, they always said that reinforcements from General Li of Liaodong would arrive tomorrow. But Shi Dewei knew that this was a lie. General Li of Liaodong had already been promoted to governor of Shandong. He had no control over Liaodong's affairs!

Life and death are ordinary things! I once heard that my father specially invited veterans who had fought in the war to say that the veterans at that time were just like me now. He said it very plainly, as if he was saying that he had eaten.

Shuan Zhu's buttocks were also pulled away, and he was called Shuan Zhu all his life. In the end, he couldn't even hold his own life.

"Hello, Chief!" the supplementary soldier came up, speaking with a Hebei accent.

Shi Dewei curled his lips, the casualties of the soldiers from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were too great, and my father had to organize civilian men into the team. In Liguan Town, in addition to the 3,500 Nanjing Forbidden Army, there were also 2,000 civilian men building fortifications.

, they were supposed to set off back to Hebei on the day of the Tatar attack. Now, they are all forced to move in Liguan Town by the Tatars.

An apple suddenly appeared in front of him, "My name is Huozhu...!" Huozhu bared his teeth and tried his best to put on a smile.

Stewie knew that this was a way for the recruits to please the veterans. Although he warned himself not to remember the names of these recruits, Stewie still nodded and took the apple.

The apples in Liaodong are very delicious, sour and sweet, and they make a "click" and "click" sound in your mouth. They are very chewy. Stewie even swallowed the core of the apple, grabbed the firecracker and moved it in front of the fire pillar.

"Look carefully, I'm only going to teach you this once. Stand the gun up like this. This thing is called a bullet. Pour in the gun powder, then put the bullet into the barrel and compact it with a strip. Just leave it to me. You have to learn

Lie on the ground and do it all, if you don't want to die."

The new recruits had to be taught everything, and the battlefield teaching made Stewie very impatient. But there was no other way, so the auxiliary soldiers could only load it, and then the veterans could shoot.

In fact, Stewie had never used firecrackers before. But these seven days had made up for the past decades.

Huo Zhu practiced hard, and the captain when he came up said that as long as he fights well, each person will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. If he has achieved military exploits, he can also work as an errand in the Jiangnan Forbidden Army. The monthly salary alone will be three taels.

Silver, that's three taels of silver.

I was building fortifications on the front line, and I only had two taels of silver after working hard for two months.

Huo Zhu looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him. Then he took out a grenade from the leather bag he carried with him. He didn't stop until he took out ten grenades. Stewie's eyes almost fell to the ground.

, no wonder this guy is carrying such a big leather bag, it turns out that it contains this thing.

"Where did you come from?" Stewie suspected that this guy had stolen the arsenal.

"My brother-in-law helped carry the ammunition and hid some secretly. When I came up today, my brother-in-law gave it to me. He said this thing is powerful...! I don't know how to use it, so it's better to leave it to you."

"Put up all these firecrackers!" Seeing that the Eight Banners soldiers on the opposite side were trying to gather again, Shi Dewei immediately ordered. He pulled the box and put the grenades on the ground into the wooden box. Then, he twisted them one by one.

Open the back cover and take out the zipper.

"Remember! No matter what, you are not allowed to raise your head or look down the city. Lie down on the ground and load bullets!" For the sake of grenades, Stewie decided to pay attention to this new recruit.

"middle!"

"Speak to your superior and make a promise!"

"No!" The stupid Huozhu sat up and opened his mouth.

Stewie pounced and threw the pillar of fire onto the city wall. A cannonball whizzed past his head at a distance of only five or six meters, and then exploded in the city, raising a huge column of smoke.

The artillery bombardment started again, and the tactics of the Hou Jin people were quite old-fashioned. After the artillery bombarded the infantry, they charged, and after the infantry charged, the artillery bombarded them. The back and forth formed a pattern!

Several cannonballs hit the city wall, and Huozhu, who was lying on the ground, felt as if his chest had been hit hard by a sledgehammer. He felt stuffy and wanted to vomit blood.

"Load bullets!" His leg hurt, and he was kicked by Stewie. At the same time, a blunderbuss was thrown at him, and the barrel of the gun hit his chin. The pain made Fire Pillar burst into tears.

Stewie just took aim hastily, and then fired a shot. The bullet hit a guy's chest, then passed through the chest and shot into the soil with muscle, broken bones, and a large amount of blood.

His head quickly retracted, and the volley of guns on the opposite side also rang out. The city wall that was full of bullet holes was immediately hit with rubble flying everywhere.

Screams came from the side, and cousin Stanai was shot in the head. The bullet opened the entire skull, and the eyeballs popped out, and the nerves inside hung on the face. The brains sprayed all over the head of the auxiliary soldier next to him.

With his face full, the auxiliary soldiers howled like a bobcat with its tail chopped off.

After just a quick glance, Stewie picked up a firecracker from the ground. He stuck his head out and aimed and fired as quickly as possible.

Huo Zhu worked hard to load the bullet. This guy was very energetic. The speed of loading the bullet was getting faster and faster, which was very rare for a novice.

Nervousness made every muscle in Stewie's body tighten. Every time he stuck his head out, he was touching the tip of Death's nose.

Later, lunatic-like guys began to appear in the Jin army. They rode tall horses. They controlled the horses with their legs and held a huge gunpowder bag in their hands. When they ran to the city, they lit the explosive bag with a fire stick in their mouths.

Then he threw it violently to the bottom of the city and turned away.

Every time the explosive pack exploded, the people on the city wall felt suffocated. Their hearts seemed to stop beating with the explosion!

The effect of the explosive packs was very obvious, especially the two iron-clad city gates, which had been riddled with holes. If the iron bars hadn't been connected, they would have been torn apart by now.

Stewie saw the opportunity and knocked down a guy with one shot. He didn't know whether the shot hit a person or a horse. Anyway, the guy was already on his back. Even if he didn't die after this fall, he would be unable to take care of himself.

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The opposing musketeers pressed closer. They worked hard to suppress the Ming army on top of the city, creating opportunities for the dead soldiers to throw the powder packets at the city gate.

Several people were very close and had already killed several Ming army gunners. Stewie became angry and picked up a grenade. He quietly crawled away for a distance, then stood up suddenly, and his body was ejected like an arrow from the string.

When the grenade was released, the man fell straight onto the city wall.

The forward inertia almost caused him to roll down the crenellated city wall.

The pillar of fire pulled one of Stewie's feet and howled to pull Stewie back.

The grenade exploded and two of the gunmen were killed. The remaining ones ran backwards in a hurry and were beaten into pieces by the musketeers at the top of the city.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" The mortars in the city fired, and the shells exploded on the skirmisher line.

The commander-in-chief also went all out and actually used mortars to bombard the enemy's skirmishers. That thing was too expensive, I heard it cost fifty taels of silver per shot. Before the war started, Commander-in-Chief Li from Liaodong shipped a batch. Then

, the Jiangnan Forbidden Army’s banknotes were much less.

Mortar shells are very expensive, but the effect is really good. Especially when the distance is very close, the accuracy of the mortar is actually pretty good.

The flying shrapnel swallowed up the gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han Army. When the smoke cleared, the ground was littered with corpses. There were also some injured ones, howling like slaughtered pigs on the ground.

The Ming troops on the city would not shoot at them. For them, the screams of their opponents were the most beautiful music. These guys would bleed to death anyway, so why waste bullets.

The Hou Jin army would not care about these wounded people and rushed to rescue the wounded, but they would probably be killed by the fire guns on the city. Dorgon did not want to bear such meaningless battle losses!

The result was that the wounded soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army were wailing in front of the formation and no one paid attention. The wailing gradually turned into a shenyin, and then a murmur. It seemed like a group of mosquitoes were chirping, and it seemed like a group of people were talking in a low voice. You ask a question, and I answer

One sentence.

Finally, under the watchful eyes of the two soldiers, the battlefield returned to silence.

"Hold on for a few days, and General Li will come to rescue us." The exhausted Shi Dewei leaned on the crenel and said, while the fire pillar next to him nodded hard, even though he did not know who General Li was.

The officers all knew that Li Xiao was now the governor of Shandong and that matters in Liaodong were not under his control. But almost every captain would tell the soldiers that General Li would come to rescue them.

In their mouths, General Li, who traveled across Liaodong, was a god. He could shoot down eight eagles with one shot, knock down the strongest bull with one hand, and eat a whole camel in one meal.

, and asked for three lambs as snacks after the meal. When he had nothing to do, he went to fight with the most ferocious demon in Liaodong. One of them was thrown into the Bohai Bay and hid in the sea and did not dare to come out. The other one was thrown into the sea.

On the mountain, whenever I think about it, I will beat him up.

The soldiers listened stupidly, which made Li Xiao's image unusually tall in this army. They are just some Tatars, can they be more powerful than the devil? When General Li arrives, he can beat the people on the opposite side.

Falling flowers and flowing water.

Everyone is looking forward to the arrival of General Li!

Some civilians ran to the city wall and filled wooden baskets with gravel and soil. They then threw them randomly at the city gate, and soon the city gate was blocked.

No one would think it inappropriate to block the city gate, as long as the Tatars don't come in, who the hell are they thinking about leaving at this time?

Shi Kefa appeared on the city wall. He greeted every soldier with a smile. He also told a few jokes to the soldiers. The soldiers received great encouragement from the commander's calm smile.

Seeing Shi Danai's body, Shi Kefa's sadness only flashed across his face for a second. Then he patted Huo Zhu's shoulder affectionately, praised the young man for his good fight, and introduced him to a good matchmaker after the battle.
Chapter completed!