On the first night, Xia Jie was very proud of his face and did not come to attack. The battle began the next day during the day.

About 150 steps outside the camp, 40 musketeers stood in two sects and exposed the musketeers openly. Behind them were explorers who made all kinds of strange screams, trying their best to provoke Liu Yifeng and the others. This was deliberately arranged by Xia Jie, with the purpose of learning the soldiers in the slogan book that would defeat others without fighting.

The impact of 40 muskets was very big, and the civilians on the wall of Liu Yifeng were already a little panicked. The commanders of each squad immediately began to yell, trying to calm their emotions.

"The shields I made for you can defend against muskets 100 steps away. As long as you don't foolishly expose your head!" Li Hongji had long anticipated this scene, and while patrolling the walls, shouting loudly: "Hold up the shields for me. As long as they don't get closer to within 100 steps, it's safe for you to hold the shields. And if they walk 100 steps, our musketeers will deal with them!"

Li Hongji's words gradually calmed down the restless men, and they began to lift the shields handed over to them one after another. I don't know if it was an illusion, but after raising the shields and looking at the musketeers, they felt that they were not that scary.

The explorers shouted for a while and were tired, so Xia Jie asked them to prepare for the battle. He wanted to try the intensity of Liu Yifeng's defense.

The battle began with the volley of fire from Xia Jie's muskets, which was full of momentum but made no achievements.

As the white smoke spread, Xia Jie's face was full of smug smiles. He thought Liu Yifeng and the others must have been scared, but he didn't expect that after the smoke dissipated, he saw neat shields and the civilians who were carefully protruding their heads to observe.

"They were prepared!"

The commander's face became very bad, and there were people who knew the musket on the other side. Naturally, they were proficient in the range and defense methods of the musket. It was basically impossible to scare the other party.

After understanding this, Xia Jie was too lazy to defeat the enemy without fighting, so he directly delegated his command and ordered the attack on the camp.

"Are you still not fighting?" Liu Yifeng asked Li Hongji as the dense crowd rushed towards the front.

"If you don't fight, let them climb the wall."

Liu Yifeng waved his hand at the musketeer on the tower, signaling not to attack, and then asked Li Hongji: "Aren't you afraid that our people will collapse?"

He was indeed a little worried about the psychological endurance of the people.

"The Dongshan Money House is too arrogant. They don't even prepare a ladder. Such people can still put them on the wall when they come to attack the city. Let's break through the siege."

Liu Yifeng looked at the explorers who rushed over in a mess, and did not even see a wooden ladder. Their camp walls were at least 3-4 meters high, so it would be too arrogant to get in by a human ladder.

"Big leader, I'll leave it to you here. I'll go to that wall. Remember, let them climb, and poke them halfway through!"

Liu Yifeng's camp was built on a mountain wall. There were only two sections of the camp wall, which guarded the camp gate like an inverted V. There was also a 5-meter-high tower on the left and right of the camp gate, and all the fire guns that can be used are currently on it.

The two of them were responsible for a section of the camp wall and allowed the explorers to approach. At the beginning, the villagers were obviously nervous and afraid, and several timid people were trembling with the naked eye. The rest could not get better either, their faces were pale, and they held the spear in their hands tightly.

But soon, as more and more explorers rushed under the wall, the villagers also saw their embarrassment.

"Hahaha, they can't get up!"

"Don't be arrogant!"

Immediately someone started to take the ladder. Liu Yifeng snatched a spear from a civilian man, stepped on the wooden pile of the camp wall with one foot, and looked down at the person who was stepping on his companion's shoulder with a smile on his face, making his face pale.

"You jump by yourself, I won't poke you."

The man breathed a sigh of relief and immediately lowered his body and prepared to jump down, but a sharp pain came from his left shoulder. After falling on his companion, he looked at the blood on the tip of the spear in Liu Yifeng's hand and asked in confusion: "Didn't you agree not to poke it?"

"Sorry, I broke my promise."

In addition to Liu Yifeng's side, several other people who tried to take the ladder were also poked over. For a moment, the explorers could only angrily cut open the periphery of the camp wall with their swords.

At this time, Li Hongji issued an order loudly: "Prepare the tower musket!"

The explorers under the camp wall seemed to hear the sound of iron chains on the face of a bull-headed and horse-faced one by one, and they ran back with pale faces.

The musketeer on the tower waited for a long time without waiting for the shooting order. He stretched out his head to see if he had missed it. But Li Hongji just raised his hand and refused to issue the shooting order.

I waited until the explorer finally realized something was wrong, stopped running and looked back at the camp.

"shooting!"

Liu Yifeng's musketeer hit the ground with a high shot and aiming ability exceeds that of Dongshan Money Village. Then more than a dozen people fell to the ground.

There were only two people who actually got hit, and the others were all frightened. They lay on the ground and kept touching themselves. After they felt that there was no hole in their bodies, they ran to their own musketeers with the help of their companions.

Xia Jie was watching the toothache in the back. He had imagined that the explorers' attacks were ineffective, but he did not expect that they would be so embarrassed.

"Shoot! Shoot me! Kill those people on the wall!"

The commander-in-chief and the leader of the Dongshan Money Bank musketman looked at Xia Jie, who was furious, and gave the order to shoot for two rounds and let them stop.

"Why don't you continue shooting? They all hit the wooden shield!"

"Shopkeeper Xia, this distance can hit the wooden shield, which is already the best for my elite. If we want to penetrate the wooden shield and hit the people, we must get closer."

"Then you get closer!"

"The other party also has muskets, and with high base, their range is farther than ours."

Xia Jie gradually regained his rationality and understood his helplessness.

"Shopkeeper Xia, use the cannon."

Xia Jie shook his head and took him into his tent. Two people inside were opening several wooden boxes and assembling a cannon.

If Li Hongji is here, he will definitely shout in shock: Fran Machine Cannon!

Then he would persuade Liu Yifeng to decisively give up the camp and fight guerrilla war with Xia Jie.

The Fran machine cannon is useless to attack earth and stone structures, but it can cause damage to wooden structures. Moreover, the Ming-made Fran machine cannons are generally small-caliber rapid-fire cannons, mainly killing people. It can be said that using the Fran machine cannon to clean up the civilians on the city wall is the best weapon.

This is the real secret weapon given to Xia Jie by the young master of Dongshan Money Village, and it is also his other confidence and confidence besides the musket.

Seeing the two craftsmen assembling the Franco cannons, Xia Jie said to his commander-in-chief with a serious expression: "It will take at least one day to assemble these three Franco cannons, and it will take one day to clean the barrel. You can only use the cannon the day after tomorrow. During this period, you still have to attack me, at least not let that bad-mouthed boy have a better life!"
Chapter completed!