"By the way, Mr. Fan. I remember that your Fan family has cannons and gunpowder in your house. If you don't take them out first, I will return them to you when the bandits outside the city are defeated." Longzhi County was in an extremely urgent situation.

, suddenly thought, the Fan family on the side is engaged in selling arms, how can the family not have a few artillery spares?

In his opinion, the current situation is extremely critical. He can borrow his artillery from the Fan family first and then return it to him after repelling the enemy. If it doesn't work, the worst he can do is compensate him with some money in the future. At this life-and-death moment,

Is it possible that his vision can still be so short-sighted?

But what Long Zhixian never expected was that Fan Shizhe denied it outright and said, "Master Long, why do you say this? My Fan family is doing honest business, how can we have any artillery powder?"

"You..." Fan Shizhe's words made Longzhi County speechless. Others didn't know what the Fan family did, how could he not know? He was the county magistrate of Jiexiu, and there was a slight disturbance in Jiexiu.

, can it be hidden from his eyes? Now, others have put knives on his neck, and he can still pretend not to know anything.

"Mr. Fan, you and I are both grasshoppers on a rope. If the city of Jiexiu is destroyed, it will not be of any benefit to you, me, or all the people of Jiexiu. Besides, if it really doesn't work, no matter how much artillery the government uses, it will be of no use to you."

How much can I pay you?" Longzhi County was still persuading him earnestly.

"This." Fan Shizhe hesitated.

Upon seeing this, Longzhi County thought Fan Shizhe was going to agree, and said happily: "Brother Fan really understands justice, I will send someone to get it right now..."

Longzhi County wanted to praise a few more words, but was stopped by Fan Shizhe, "Sir, I just thought about it carefully and found that my Fan family does not have artillery, which disappoints you."

"You...how can you be so stubborn?" Long Zhixian was so angry that he jumped out, pointed at Fan Shizhe's nose, and cursed. "You are so ignorant, ignorant, and stupid."

Fan Shizhe had quite a self-reliant demeanor. Facing the curse of Longzhi County, he could still take it calmly and suggested to Longzhi County, "Sir, don't be anxious. Although I don't have artillery at home, I know where there is artillery, and

It’s so close, it’s almost as if you’re beckoning.”

"Oh? Where is it? Tell me quickly." Although Longzhi County was dissatisfied with Fan Shizhe, now was not the time to get angry with him. He grabbed Fan Shizhe's hand and said hurriedly.

"Far away in the horizon, close in front of you. My lord, don't you know there are artillery on top of this city?"

"Oh, are there still artillery on top of the city?" Long Zhixian looked at the leader of the strong squad Tian squad on the side with doubtful eyes.

"Sir, there are indeed artillery on top of the city, but..." Before Captain Tian could finish his words, he was stopped by the impatient Long Zhixian.

"Since there are artillery at the top of the city, why don't we let them fight back?" Long Wenguang, the county magistrate, remembered in a trance in the chaos. At that time, when he had just become the magistrate of Jiexiu, he was patrolling the city tower and had seen it before.

At that time, he felt that a soldier was an unlucky weapon and a gentleman had no choice but to use it, so he left in a hurry.

When he was surrounded by refugees two days ago, the combat power of the refugees was not worthy of Long Wenguang's concern. Now, the ones attacking Jiexiu outside the city have been replaced by the Pei family army, and Jiexiu's defense situation has doubled.

It's time to use it as a last resort.

Another round of artillery shells came. Taking advantage of the interval between the artillery fire, Long Wenguang grabbed Team Leader Tian and shouted: "Team Leader Tian, ​​why haven't you fired back with artillery? Could it be that you have to wait until Jie Xiu is defeated?"

Are you going to surrender directly to the enemy?"

Team leader Tian was about to cry but had no tears, so he explained to Magistrate Long: "Sir, it's not that we don't fire cannons, it's actually that those cannons can't fire at all."

Long Zhixian frowned and said dissatisfied: "What can't be done? Fire quickly, otherwise we will all die here."

Team leader Tian made a sad face and complained endlessly: "Sir, you'd better come and take a look."

Seeing his appearance, Long Wenguang feared that there was something hidden, so he braved the artillery fire and followed Team Leader Tian to the place where the cannon was stored.

After just one glance, Tian Wenguang stood blankly on the spot. There were still other cannons, but the cannon was clearly marked with the inscription, Made in the First Year of Jiajing. Moreover, due to long-term lack of maintenance, the cannon was already covered with rust. Of course, disaster

Fortunately, it may be for this reason that these three artillery pieces have been retained until now.

But no matter what, just shoot it out. Long Zhixian asked: "Isn't there a cannon? Why don't you fire it quickly?"

Captain Tian smiled bitterly and said to Magistrate Long: "Sir, the cannon is here, but the gunpowder is still in the treasury. Lord Wang, who guards the treasury, will not allow the young ones to get the gunpowder."

"Are you a pig?" Long Zhixian was furious, "Won't you report it to me?"

Team leader Tian lowered his head and said nothing, thinking of looking for you? You "take care of everything" every day, but go to Cuiyu Tower from time to time to study music. How dare we look for you?

Longzhi County had just vaguely figured out the reason. He couldn't say much and ordered: "Pass my order and ask the treasury to send me gunpowder immediately. Any neglect will be severely punished."

With the order from Longzhi County, things became much easier to handle. After a while, two government officials carried two barrels of gunpowder and ran towards this side quickly.

Seeing that the gunpowder had arrived, Longzhi County quickly ordered Team Leader Tian: "Quickly fire the artillery to knock out the opponent's artillery array."

At this time, the Pei Army's artillery formation outside the city fired another round of volleys at the top of the wall, creating a huge crack in the not-so-high city wall. The entire city head was now crumbling.

In Longzhi County, Captain Tian and others patted the gravel and soil on their bodies, climbed out from the female wall where they were hiding, picked up the gunpowder barrel and came to the artillery. They opened the gunpowder barrel and were about to load gunpowder into the artillery.

As soon as he opened a barrel of gunpowder, Team Leader Tian was stunned again. Inside the gunpowder barrel, what should have been powdered gunpowder had already turned into a large lump of condensed gunpowder. Let alone

If it explodes, it won't even burn.

In desperation, Team Leader Tian could only order a few government servants around him to crush the gunpowder again with the barrel of the long gun in his hand. After feeling that it was almost done, he loaded it into the barrel of the gun.

However, everyone really didn't trust this old item from their grandfather's generation, and they were afraid that it would explode accidentally, so they secretly filled it with as little gunpowder as possible.

After loading the gunpowder and filling the muzzle with the cannonballs, Team Leader Tian blew the gunpowder he carried with him, stretched towards the gunpowder on the back of the gun body, lit the gunpowder, and heard a squeaking sound. After a while,

The powder burned onto the cannon,

The officer on the side quickly covered his ears and heard a pop. A large amount of thick smoke came out of the barrel. After the smoke dissipated, Team Leader Tian looked inward along the muzzle and saw the round that had just been loaded.

The cannonball didn't even come out of the barrel, but was stuck in the barrel.

When Longzhi County saw this scene, he couldn't help but lamented, "It's really God's death, and so am I."

At this moment, the crumbling city wall could no longer hold on. After a round of fire by Pei's army outside the city, it finally collapsed. Caught off guard, a large number of servants and government officials who had not escaped on the city wall were all buried.

Under the masonry.

A smile appeared on Pei Xiaoer's face. The artillery battalion performed well, but it needs to strengthen training in the future. When all the artillery fire can be concentrated on one point in the future, then the siege speed will be even faster, "Brother

Our road, the brothers from the artillery battalion have opened it for us, and the rest is up to us. We must capture Jiexiu and avenge the dead brothers. Kill..."

Pei Xiaoer pulled out the sword from his waist and pointed the tip towards the city. The word 'kill' shocked Yu Nei.

As Pei Xiaoer's order was issued, Liu Changle's troops began to line up in a neat formation, advancing towards the opened gap. The dense pace was continuous and getting bigger and bigger, as if they had stepped into the depths of the enemy's soul.

Give the enemy an endless sense of oppression.

When they were about fifty steps away from the gap, the two rows of archers behind Liu Changle's army stopped, stood still, lowered their shoulders, picked up their bows and set arrows, raised them 45 degrees, and with the word "release"

Suddenly, a dense rain of arrows flew towards the gap.

The few government officials who had narrowly escaped death when the city tower collapsed just stood up tremblingly, and were met with a dense rain of arrows. Then they lay down again, and there was no more movement. After three rounds of arrow rain,

, no living person can be seen in the entire gap.

Then the light infantry in the front row, holding swords and shields, quickly moved towards the gap in the city wall, successfully captured the gap, and at the same time pursued them into the city.

At the same time, the refugees who had been staying in the camp saw that Pei's army had opened a gap in the city wall. The refugees began to become restless. Then it was not known who was incited by whom, and the refugees began to move towards them regardless of their own safety.
Chapter completed!