Under Chen Anjie's forced order, the offensive of the Qin King's army immediately became more fierce.
On the other side, Li Lingrui also made the same decision.
Fortunately, Jin Feng's appearance just now boosted morale, and the soldiers of Shu fought desperately to hold the line of defense again.
Seeing that the battle situation was still stable for the time being, Jin Feng turned around and left, going back to make bullets for the rifle.
Morale is actually a matter of bravery. As casualties increased and ammunition became less and less, the morale of the Shu army gradually dropped again.
Although Jin Feng was in the stone house making bullets, he arranged for his personal guards to keep an eye on the battlefield. When they found that the battle situation was showing signs of collapse, the personal guards hurriedly ran to call Jin Feng out.
Jin Feng came up and first looked at the battle situation, then turned to look at the wind direction of the flag on the flagpole and the position of the sun. After thinking about it in his mind for a moment, he made a gesture to the guards behind him. Bayi Chinese website
After a while, there were two wolf smoke rising into the sky from the clearing on the mountainside, one black and one red.
"Brothers, if you keep on holding on, sir has lit the flames of war, and our reinforcements are coming soon!"
Whether they were clerical officers or company instructors, they all rushed to the front line to cheer up the Shu soldiers.
"Haha, I was right, we must have reinforcements!"
"Brothers, don't be afraid. When our reinforcements arrive, they will be finished!"
"Old Zhang, you have to hold on. When the reinforcements come, we can avenge your brother!"
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The Shu soldiers, who were already exhausted, immediately became excited when they saw the smoke.
But Zhang Liang and Han Feng still looked worried.
A few days ago, Han Feng's hidden stakes reported the location of the reinforcements. According to the location at that time, even if Guan Xiaorou and the others went all out without eating or sleeping, they would not be able to get here until the day after tomorrow at the earliest.
Zhang Liang has been in charge of military affairs and is very aware of the strength of Jin Feng's troops. Apart from Guan Xiaorou and the others, Jin Feng has no other reinforcements.
Therefore, both Zhang Liang and Han Feng felt that Jin Feng was bluffing by lighting the wolf smoke to boost morale again.
In Zhang Liang's opinion, this method cannot fundamentally solve the problem. At most, it can only be temporarily delayed. The enemy will still attack sooner or later.
The fact was as Zhang Liang expected. The two piles of smoke had burned out and the smoke pillars had completely dissipated, but not even the shadow of the reinforcements could be seen.
At this time, there were less than 5,000 Shu troops who could continue fighting, and both Da Zhuang and Chen Fengzhi were ready to retreat to the mountainside at any time.
Once they retreat to the mountainside, the Shu army will no longer have any room to retreat!
The battle lasted until mid-afternoon, and the female musketeers in the northern position began to run out of gunpowder. At first, everyone could even out each other, but after holding on for a few more minutes, everyone's gunpowder was exhausted.
In desperation, Da Zhuang could only send someone to ask Jin Feng and Zhang Liang for instructions to withdraw.
Until now, except for the female musketeer company, almost all the Shu soldiers have been injured, and they are all supported by the musketeer team.
Now that the gunpowder has been used up, the musket has become almost a decoration.
Without the suppressive firepower of the musketry company, the Shu army would definitely not be able to hold on.
According to the current battle situation, Zhang Liang can only agree to Da Zhuang's request to retreat.
Once Da Zhuang retreats, there will no longer be any barrier to the north, and Chen Fengzhi in the south must also retreat with him.
Thinking about it with his toes, Zhang Liang also knew that Chen Anjie and Li Lingrui would not give up such a good opportunity and would definitely take advantage of the situation to pursue them.
Zhang Liang thought over and over again and finally gave the order to defend.
However, what he didn't expect was that before the messengers reached the front line, the gunpowder of the northern musketry team was completely exhausted.
The originally dense gunfire became increasingly sparse, and finally fell completely silent.
The female soldiers of the Musketeers had no time to retreat and replace them, and there was no one to replace them. They could only draw their sabers and continue fighting.
However, the defense line that the female soldiers were responsible for was too long. Without muskets, they could not defend it at all!
Dang Xiang's southern expeditionary army immediately seized the opportunity and broke into the defense line.
The defense line on the north side immediately became shaky!
"It's over!"
Da Zhuang held the broken black knife in his hand, his heart was filled with despair.
Qing Mulan, Han Feng and others on the mountainside also looked desperate.
Only Zhang Liang remained calm and drew out his sword with his backhand: "Anyone who can still move, follow me!"
There is only a small mountain road that can be walked from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. The personal guards of Jin Feng, Zhang Liang and others have dozens of people in total, but they can barely hold it.
Although facing mountains and seas of enemies, they may only be able to defend for ten minutes at most, but Zhang Liang would rather die in battle than be captured alive by the party members.
"Amei, Gillian, let's go and help too!"
Qing Mulan also drew out his saber and followed Zhang Liang with his bodyguards.
Zuo Feifei looked at the small courtyard behind, wanting to take one last look at Jin Feng, but she didn't see it.
Jin Feng was still making bullets in the stone house, and she only saw Ajuan guarding the door.
"Master, see you in the next life!"
Zuo Feifei said goodbye to Jin Feng silently in her heart, took out the musket from her waist, and walked towards the path without hesitation.
However, at this moment, Zhang Liang suddenly saw a violent explosion coming from the north.
Then I saw a ball of fire appearing in the sky to the north.
This kind of fire is all too familiar to Zhang Liang, it is caused by the explosion of explosive packs.
There is only one explanation for the location of the fire being so high, and that is that the explosion occurred at high altitude.
Thinking of this, Zhang Liang had no time to guard the mountain road and quickly squinted his eyes and looked north.
I saw a faint black spot appearing in the sky to the north.
Zhang Liang quickly picked up the telescope and pointed it at the black spots.
After a while, Zhang Liang, who could face life and death calmly, shed two lines of hot tears from the corners of his eyes.
But Han Feng and others did not laugh at him, and no one even noticed Zhang Liang's expression. At this time, there were only those little black spots in their eyes!
Because a little black dot is a hot air balloon!
The logo of Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is also printed on it.
The explosion just now was caused by the hot air balloon and the falcon dying together!
"Reinforcements are coming! Our reinforcements are coming!"
The escort behind Zhang Liang roared and shouted, and the veins on his neck popped out!
The wind was blowing from the north at this time, and the hot air balloon was blown by the wind at a very fast speed. It was soon possible to see clearly without a telescope.
"It turns out we really have reinforcements!"
"But how did the reinforcements come from the north?"
"It doesn't matter where they come from, as long as they are our reinforcements!"
"Brothers, the reinforcements are really coming. If we hold on for a while, we will definitely win!"
"The party members have falcons. Can the hot air balloon fly over?"
"Falcons are not just rocks on the mountain, they are everywhere. The party members must not have many falcons left!"
"We have so many hot air balloons here. Even if one hot air balloon is exchanged for a falcon, we can replace all the falcons of the Party members!"