Wang Jianshan went up the mountain with 5,000 men and horses, as well as special armor "tortoise shells". Following him were Zhuge Yue, Xiangshou, Shangguan Haonan and others.
The remaining 35,000 troops camped at the foot of the mountain and moved the entire camp to the mountains to prevent sneak attacks.
Luo Wu knew that the attack in the morning was just a test, and that the opponent's fighting strength was not strong. The day had not passed, and there must be a tough battle to be fought, so he did not relax. After recovering the crossbow arrows, the supplies on the top of the mountain were still abundant, enough to support him to fight for a few more days.
night.
As long as there are no accidents, the other party will soon have an accident.
When he saw an upside-down wooden boat-shaped object appearing on the mountain, he knew that His Majesty's side must have put a lot of pressure on them. This kind of object should be their trump card to deal with grenades. It was revealed on the first day.
came out, it shows that they don't want to wait for a moment and want to win the top of the mountain in one fell swoop.
He shouted to the brothers on the top of the mountain in a low voice: "Brothers, the next step is to fight hard. It depends on you whether to wipe out these bandits, return to Chang'an and get promoted, or die in a foreign country."
Wei Qi responded abruptly: "Commander Luo, please rest assured, I, Wei Qi, will definitely let them come upright and go out horizontally."
"That's right, just bandits are not our enemies at all. We will kill as many as they come."
"Okay," Luo Wu saw that the morale of the soldiers was soaring, and shouted: "When we return to Chang'an, I, Luo Wu, will personally invite you to have a good drink at my general's residence."
"Thank you, General."
Bandit camp.
Wang Jianshan led Zhuge to review the animals, while Shangguan Haonan was observing the situation on the mountain.
After the attack and observation in the morning, Wang Jianshan initially concluded that the opponent only had five or six hundred people. It was too foolish to have the three thousand people here in the morning.
This time he mobilized two thousand archers to shoot first and then attack, but he could not let his men die in vain again.
"Commander Zhuge, let's follow the strategy discussed at noon and capture the top of the mountain?" Wang Jianshan asked Zhuge Yue for his opinion, and Zhuge Yue nodded in agreement.
Seeing the military advisor's agreement, Wang Jianshan turned to look at the animals and Shangguan Haonan.
"Animals, you lead an army of three thousand to charge into battle with tortoise shells. Shangguan Haonan, you are from the Shangguan family, and you trained archers at Shangguan's family. These two thousand archers will be assigned to you to support the animals at any time. The two armies will cooperate with each other.
, take the high ground."
"We will not disappoint the master." They both raised their hands and accepted the order from Wang Jianshan.
There are four boats of turtle shells in front of the formation. Each boat can hold 200 people inside the turtle shells, for a total of 800 people. The remaining 2,200 people follow closely behind the turtle shells and charge forward using the turtle shells as shields.
Each wooden board of these tortoise shells has been thickened and coated with tung oil in order to restrain the power of grenades.
The animal's palms were slightly sweaty. He had seen the power of those grenades. It was impossible to say that he was not afraid of them. But the revenge of the brothers in the Kanshan cave had not yet been avenged, and the boss valued him so much. If he didn't even
With such courage, no one in the entire army dared to charge into battle.
Thinking of this, the beast suddenly raised its spirits and shouted loudly to his men: "Brothers, my brothers from Kanshan tribe died in their hands. Those brothers are just like you, all of them are brave and brave. If the other party hadn't taken the hand
Lei Zhiwei, we have killed them all long ago."
"Now that we have tortoise shells, we can restrain the opponent's grenades, so what are we afraid of? Everyone joins me, lift up the tortoise shells, charge towards the opponent, kill the dog emperor, and become a prince in Chang'an!"
"Kill the dog emperor and become the prince of Chang'an!"
Many bandits also responded, raised their turtle shells, and slowly moved towards the top of the mountain. Upon seeing this, the bandits who had not entered the turtle shell also followed.
Shangguan Haonan arranged for 200 people to climb trees to guard the rear, and the remaining 1,800 people were scattered on both sides to wait for the opportunity.
Luo Wu vaguely heard their shouts.
"Turtle shell? A group of people are hiding inside, it really looks like that." Luo Wu turned around and shouted to his guard: "Second Battalion Commander, pull out my Italian cannon."
He always heard Qin Huaidao call artillery this way, and he also planned to learn from His Majesty and get a taste of it.
Commander of the Second Battalion of the Guard Corps: "Commander, what are you talking about?"
"It's the artillery. Pull out the artillery." Luo Wu had to explain again.
Although Qin Huaidao did not say that he would take the artillery on the official ship, he still secretly left one artillery for the garrison to disassemble and transport in batches. There were also ten artillery shells to go with the artillery.
Seeing this artillery piece that had done so much in Hangzhou, Luo Wu thought it was a good thing he brought one over, otherwise he would definitely suffer a loss in a fight based on the thickness of the opponent's tortoise shell.
After the second battalion commander pulled out the artillery, he asked Luo Wu: "Do you want to load it now?"
Luo Wudao: "Don't worry, let's try the quality of these tortoise shells first."
He asked the sniper team to shoot a wave of arrows with crossbows first. Thirty consecutive rounds of crossbow arrows were shot out all over the sky, making the animals tremble with fear.
"Royal."
He shouted, and everyone stopped and put down the tortoise shell. The people behind the tortoise shell also squatted down, and those with shields raised their shields high to prevent arrows from passing over the tortoise shell and hitting them.
The rain of arrows fell, and except for a few that hit behind the tortoise shell, the rest were blocked by the tortoise shell. The crossbow arrows failed to penetrate the tortoise shell, and did not cause any casualties to the bandits led by the animals.
Seeing that nothing happened, the animal was overjoyed and said, "It really works."
But he knew that it was too early to be happy now. What this thing needed to defend against was not these crossbow arrows, but the shockingly powerful grenades. As long as the opponent hadn't thrown the grenades, it wouldn't be considered a defense by the turtle shell.
On the other side, Shangguan Haonan saw crossbow arrows being fired from the top of the mountain. He also signaled the archers to start taking action. The distance of these archers' weapons was not as long as the opponent's, so they could only take advantage of the gap between the opponent's shots at the turtle shell and advance three hundred steps forward to win.
to shooting space.
Two teams of archers formed two wings on the left and right sides of the turtle shell. After continuously advancing, Shangguan Haonan saw that the distance was enough to give the order to shoot.
When the string was fully pulled, the arrow feathers left the string and made bursts of sound. Seeing this, Luo Wu shouted: "The whole army avoids!"
Both the garrison and the sniper regiment immediately hid in the holes in the trenches. These arrows were fired several times without causing any casualties to them.
"It's a mistake." Shangguan Haonan was furious. As soon as the other person squatted on the ground, he couldn't see what was going on inside. Just as he was about to touch it to see clearly, he suddenly heard that the other person's head had popped up.
This person is the leader of the opponent, Luo Wu, one of the ten generals of the Han Dynasty and the leader of the garrison.
"Counterattack with crossbow arrows, shoot both wings!"
As the order was given, everyone took advantage of the gap when the archers were stagnant, raised their hands and fired all the crossbow arrows. A total of fifteen thousand arrows were scattered to the two wings. Looking at the number of crossbow arrows that far exceeded their own size, Shangguan Haonan