Tang Xiao's protective energy was quickly exhausted. He gave up the idea of ​​fighting back and quickly fell from the air. He landed under the city wall and flew to the stone fortification where the Shenming Fortress was located. This was the first time he was in actual combat to command the Daming Dynasty's killing weapon. Although there were only ten shells, he had to take it out and use it at this moment, otherwise Fengxin Pass would soon fall into the enemy's hands.

Several well-trained gunners were guarding the Shenming Fortress, waiting for Tang Xiao to issue the order, and immediately ignited the cannon.

After Tang Xiao fell down from the sky, the crossbows that gathered his shots lost their target and immediately turned to attack the defenders on the city wall, which doubled the pressure on the defenders. The Shenming Cannon at Fengxin Pass was always hoarse, which made the attacker even more unscrupulous.

"How did this Shenming Cannon aim?" Tang Xiao entered the stone castle of the artillery tower and asked the gunners.

"It is difficult to aim at the gun barrel within a hundred feet, but it is not easy to aim at a hundred feet. You must comprehensively judge the landing point based on the distance, wind direction, and the speed of the opponent's movement." A gunner in charge of aiming answered Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao nodded. Although this Shenming cannon is powerful, it is still incomparable to the tank gunship missiles of the previous modern war.

Tang Xiao hid in the Shenming Fortress. The second fire cloud talisman arrow lost its target. Ao Deng, the deputy commander of the coalition forces, was unwilling to accept the advice of the people around him. Instead, he replaced the special steel arrow on the Sky Bow. He pulled the strings and pressed the arrows in his hand and fired dozens of arrows out on the Fengxin Pass wall. Ao Deng was superb in shooting skills and was killed. More than a dozen guards on the city wall fell down. Even if he was protected by the iron wooden shield, he was pierced by Ao Deng's steel arrow with strong energy. One steel arrow even skewed the two guards who were too close to him.

Ao Deng's steel arrow caused great panic to the soldiers guarding the city, and everyone was worried that they would become his next target. Ao Deng's shooting was booming. Although his personal soldiers repeatedly persuaded him, he had no intention of retreating. After shooting the quiver's steel arrow, he took a quiver from his hand, took a bow and arrow, and continued to shoot a long-range point, assisting the sword and shield soldiers in front of him to attack the city.

Tang Xiao stared at Ao Deng at the Shenming Fort. This man's archery technique has obviously become a great threat to Feng Xinguan. If it cannot be removed as soon as possible, it will cause a devastating blow to the morale of the defending soldiers.

"How sure are you to hit that target?" Tang Xiao pointed at Ao Deng and asked the gunner in charge of aiming. Shooting people first, shooting horses first, capturing the thief first, and carrying out beheading operations on the enemy is a very effective war strategy. If used well, it may turn the situation around in one fell swoop.

"Two percent, about thirty." The gunner answered Tang Xiao after observing it.

"Try to get fifty percent! Fire up the cannon and smash him!" Tang Xiao gave the order, and then looked into the distance from the observation hole.

"Yes!" After the gunners were ordered, they immediately started to load ammunition and medicine nervously. Because Tang Xiao was present, the gunner in charge of aiming carefully analyzed the angle of the barrel. After a while, he waved his hand and asked another gunner to ignite the lead of the Shenming cannon.

"Tong Tang, cover your ears! Leave your mouth!" Several gunners shouted to Tang Xiao, then covered their ears and closed their eyes and lay on the ground.

Tang Xiao only covered his ears and did not lie on the ground like they did, but continued to look into the distance through the observation hole, especially in the direction where Ao Deng was.

‘Boom!’ There was a earth-shaking sound, and the smoke filled the Shenming Fortress, and the earth was shaking. A large number of gravel fell from the sky, smashing Tang Xiao’s Wanlian Shenming Armor jingled.

After the thick smoke dissipated, several gunners pushed the Shenming cannon back. The recoil of the gun just now was extremely strong, and it rushed back more than a foot. If the cannon body had not been fixed to the thick stone wall with a huge iron anchor chain, the entire cannon barrel would have rushed out of the Shenming cannon backwards!

Tang Xiao shook the dust on his armor, and looked at the place where the coalition general who was riding and shooting archery just now through the observation hole of the fortress. He found that a large pit several feet wide was blown up there, surrounded by broken corpses and flesh. Several horses around the pit were blown up and their stomachs were poured into a pool of blood. Judging from the color of the hair, it was the coalition general who shot Tang Xiao with the fire cloud talisman arrow and the mounts of his personal soldiers.

Are they all destroyed?

"Not bad! This gun was shot very accurately!" Tang Xiao praised the gunner happily, then touched ten taels of silver and rewarded him, and gave some silver to the other gunners.

"Thank you, General Tang!" The gunners touched the black and gray faces and smiled happily.

I have to say that the gunner's character exploded today and he was lucky. Or, Ao Deng's character is too bad and too bad today. This shot was like a blind cat caught a dead mouse, but it actually hit Ao Deng's head and exploded, directly blowing Ao Deng's body without any remaining bones.

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"Report to the Grand Commander! General Ao... General Ao..." Behind the coalition army's siege, a blood-stained general rushed to the Grand Commander Wei Di and reported to him.

"What's wrong with General Ao!" Wei Di couldn't help but be shocked.

"General Ao went too deep and was killed by Mingren's cannon!"

"What!?" Wei Di couldn't help but be shocked. Unless Shen Ming cannoned his body, he could only be seriously injured. Why was he killed by Ao Deng's cultivation?

Wei Di was stunned for a while and then touched his forehead and sighed: "This Ao Deng! Why is he underestimating the enemy so much? It's all my fault! I blame me! I shouldn't have sent him to fight at this time!"

After killing Ao Deng with one shot, several gunners from Shenming Fort were like divine help. Under Tang Xiao's command, Shenming Fort fired three more Shenming bombs, each of which hit the dense area of ​​the siege army, killing and injuring hundreds of people. In addition, Ao Deng's death seriously damaged the coalition's sharpness of knocking on the gate. There was a crying sound of fathers and mothers in the formation, and the casualties had exceeded the previous plan of the coalition headquarters. Wei Di had to pass the order to suspend the siege and let the various battalions collect troops.

In order to preserve his strength and reduce losses, Wei Di had to give up more than a thousand swords and shield soldiers who were sieging the city and let the crossbowmen retreat first.

As soon as the crossbowmen of the coalition forces retreated, the pressure on the soldiers guarding the city suddenly decreased.

After the star-like arrows were gone, Tang Xiao quickly summoned more than ten puppets. He carried the heavy crab claw halberd in his hand and flew around the city wall at Fengxin Pass with these puppets, killing indiscriminately. The battlefield was very chaotic, and Tang Xiao could not have divided so many spiritual senses to control each puppet, but he used the puppet formation to force them into one and provide assistance to the body.

That night, the robbery camp allowed Tang Xiao to replenish many second-level or even third-level puppets. Tang Xiao's puppet formation has greatly increased its strength. With the help of the puppet demon formation, Tang Xiao can now even exert the strength of the fourth-level or above Earth Yuan level. Once a large number of enemy soldiers rushed to the city wall, Tang Xiao immediately led the puppet demon formation to fly over to block the leak. The two hundred Shenming crossbow chariots in the fortress in Guannei no longer shoot randomly, but retained arrow branches to shoot the strong men in the opposite array.

Soon, these sword and shield soldiers who were sieging the city found that they had been abandoned by the coalition forces, so they scattered and fled far away. Tang Xiao flew over the city wall and saw that the coalition forces had retreated out of the attack range of the Shenming Cannon like a tide. In order to understand the movements of the coalition forces in time, Tang Xiao did not go out of the city to pursue, but just controlled a puppet of a sword and shield soldier who had just been captured by him in the melee, and retreated back to the coalition camp with other sword and shield soldiers.

The coalition's surging offensive finally came to an end. In this battle, several gunners in the Shenming Fort made their contributions. Tang Xiao stood on the high city wall to reward him. He did not count the tips he had just given, and he gave more or less rewards to these gunners and all the soldiers guarding the city. The fallen soldiers also asked Hu Run to register and promised him the maximum pension.

"The Tang Dynasty's chief minister treats us so well and receives his own salary to reward us! After his death in battle, his family also has a large pension! We will be willing to guard the pass to repay the Tang Dynasty's chief minister!"

"Swear to guard the pass to the death!"

"Loyal to the Tang Dynasty!"

With the distribution of silver and the roar of generals at all levels, the morale of falling down due to casualties in Fengxin Pass suddenly surged again.

Tang Xiao knew that fighting was about burning silver, but he didn't take this silver seriously. When he needed it, he just needed to spend a certain amount of time to do it, as much as he needed. Now it's time to burn this silver, and you must be willing to take action so that someone will work hard for you.

After rectifying his morale, Tang Xiao called Hu Run over and threw him a low-level flying magic weapon. He whispered to him: "After we robbed the camp the night before yesterday, we attracted the main force of the coalition vanguard. Now the enemy is in large numbers, we have too few people. Take my token and go to Hualien City to ask Lin Zhen and the eldest prince for troops, and tell them: My Fenglin Town garrison can hold on for at most for one day here. In one day, before tomorrow, if the reinforcements in Hualien City are not allowed to stop, I will withdraw my troops and return."

"Yes! Duke!" Hu Run responded and excitedly refined the flying magic weapon, then flew towards Hualien City.

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"Brothers, my vanguard army came out in full swing, but they defeated Ao Yin and Ao Deng two generals, and the losses reached 3,000! The Fengxin Pass has been unfavorable for many times, and the Harmonious Cannons are difficult to arrive within a few days. What are the good strategies for breaking the pass? Could it be that we have been stationed here?" In the coalition tent, the commander Wei Di asked the surrounding generals with a sad face.
Chapter completed!