With a delicate smile, the rough guy bows down for the beauty

Chapter 97 surprise attack
The artillery battalion took the lead, with a group of three, and used a small throwing vehicle to throw the first batch of thunderbolts on the cliff.

With the roaring sound, the fire splattered, accompanied by dust and rocks bursting on the cliff, and mixed with the cries of bandits.

Obviously, the group of bandits who had just climbed the cliff and had not had time to retreat were injured by the blast.

After the first wave of thunderbolts, Shen He ordered people to build a ladder to let the musketeers climb up the cliff, while continuing to prepare for the second wave of thunderbolts, ready to cover fire at any time.

Sure enough, when the ladder was erected, there were bandits rolling stones down the ladder.

Fortunately, Shen He kept an eye out and didn't let the musketeer rush up the ladder, otherwise many people would be killed or injured.

"Artillery Battalion, continue to throw thunderbolts!" Shen He shouted.

But before their thunderbolts were thrown, a batch of thunderbolts were thrown down from the cliff.

Everyone was shocked and quickly retreated.

But even so, many soldiers on the front line were injured and killed a lot. For a while, flesh and ashes were mixed together under the cliff, and the wailing of the wounded continued one after another.

Shen He's face was gloomy, and while ordering the wounded to be carried away, he was thinking about how to deal with it.

After all, it was much easier and more lethal for these bandits to throw thunderbolts from top to bottom than they were to throw them from bottom to top.

Not only that, after temporarily forcing the imperial army back, some bandits poured fire oil down the cliff.

This is obviously intended to be used to burn ladders.

If the ladder goes up again, they only need to light a fire, and a sea of ​​flames will form on the cliff. Even if the ladder burns continuously for a while, no one will be able to stand on the ladder.

"His grandma, these bastards have a lot of tricks!" Shen He spat hard, his eyes sharp.

Shen Qianwei, who had been following him for a long time and had been silent for a long time, finally spoke out at this time.

"I guessed this would happen earlier. These bandits have gunpowder and firearms in their hands, and they will definitely use them. This area is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If they didn't have two brushes, they would have been wiped out."

"Just talking sarcastic words." Shen He glared at him, "Didn't you have plans long ago, kid?"

Speaking of the previous conspiracy, Shen Qianwei shook the long knife in his hand and grinned.

"Don't worry, this won't waste him. We have enough gunpowder. I don't believe this bandit has so much gunpowder."

Shen He also scolded the bastard with a smile, and then said no more.

Immediately let the people from the artillery battalion come forward and continue to throw thunderbolts on the mountain.

At this time, Shen Qianwei whispered a few words to the little commander beside him.

The latter understood, and immediately went behind the artillery battalion.

Not long after, after the first few waves of thunderbolts were thrown at each other, wooden balls the size of thunderbolts were thrown by the throwing cart.

All I could hear was the crackling and cracking sound from the cliff.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Qianwei dispatched the archers to shoot rockets from the cliff.

It is a weapon that wraps the arrowhead in oilcloth, ignites it, and shoots it out with fire.

As the rain of flaming arrows fell, the flames suddenly burst out on the cliff, and standing under the cliff could see the flames burning blazingly above.

Because the batch of wooden balls that were thrown up just now were filled with kerosene.

The things that bandits know how to use, the court naturally knows how to use even more. These things were made by Shen Qianwei after he came to Yuzhou and ordered Zheng Han to secretly ask someone to make them.

It was completed by the five hundred trusted soldiers brought by Shen He, and no news was leaked out. It can be called a surprise attack if it is brought out at this moment.

"Continue to vote, and set fire to Fuhuzhai!" Shen Qianwei raised his knife and shouted.

The morale of the soldiers of the Artillery Battalion was even higher, and they threw kerosene up the mountain for a long time. Of course, there was not so much kerosene, so there was also a small altar of white wine thrown on it from behind.

It is the kind that ordinary people drink, that is, it is cheap and has a high concentration, and it is not much different from kerosene.

In short, a wall of fire was quickly burned on the cliff.

Of course, the bandits also poured kerosene on the cliff, so it was also burning at this moment, and the whole city was covered in flames, and it was so hot that people dare not approach it in the summer of August.

But right now is the best chance to rush up the cliff, so Shen Qianwei was already prepared.

He ordered someone to buy a batch of thin cotton clothes early in the morning, wet them all with water, and brought them with the army.

After discussing tactics with his father last night, he didn't go back to his room to rest for a long time, so he went to arrange these wet cotton clothes.

Because he wanted to avoid King Yu's eyes and ears, he directly ordered people to unload two carts full of Thunderbolt bombs, and replace them with cotton-padded clothes soaked in buckets.

Now order people to take them all out, and let a group of elite soldiers put on these wet cotton clothes and climb up on the ladder.

Without hesitation, Shen Qianwei took the lead and put on the wet and heavy padded clothes, then wet his hair, hands, face, legs and feet with water, put a crossbow arrow and saber on his waist, and climbed up the ladder first.

Even with the protection of wet cotton clothes, the scorching flames still made people's skin sting.

Shen He looked at his son rushing to the front with a gloomy face, and his heart was also pulled hard.

He agreed to let Shen Qianwei take the lead, but it would be a lie to say that he was not worried, after all Shen Qianwei was his only son.

But Shen He also knew that he couldn't stop this kid, so what he could do was to protect him and prevent him from getting hurt.

But this time is indeed a good time to climb the cliff, because of the suppression of thunderbolts and the persecution of the sea of ​​fire, there are no bandits guarding the edge of the cliff, and Shen Qianwei led the people to climb up the cliff smoothly.

As I thought in my heart, here is a sea of ​​fire, but there is no vegetation, but a bare sand field.

Apparently this place was sorted out by the bandits, and the way out of the stockade could be set on fire thanks to the kerosene and white wine thrown up.

Once the burning is over, there is no vegetation to continue to ignite the fire, and the bandits will come back soon.

Today we are fighting on the mountain, and we use small catapults to throw thunderbolts and other things. The range is about 150 meters, but throwing from the bottom to the top is not as effective as from the top to the bottom, so the sea of ​​​​fire on the cliff is only more than 50 meters at the moment. width.

Therefore, those bandits who retreated could easily find that someone had climbed up.

Immediately shoot arrows here, trying to force the imperial army back.

Shen Qianwei's face was gloomy, and his eyes were as sharp as a lone wolf. He took off his wet and heavy cotton coat, threw it down the ladder, and swung his knife to block it.

Originally bandits mostly used weapons such as knives and long-barreled guns. Few of them could shoot arrows, and they were not prepared for someone who could actually climb up, so the rain of arrows was sparse, and they didn't have much strength and accuracy. trouble.

With Shen Qianwei taking the lead, the rest of the soldiers also followed his example, took off their wet cotton clothes and threw them down, brandishing their knives and rushing forward after him.

When the soldiers at the bottom of the cliff saw the wet cotton clothes being thrown down, they all put them on immediately, and then climbed up.

For a time, there were no longer a few people rushing up the cliff.

Shen Qianwei is well aware of the principle of being wary of throwing rats, so he rushed up to fight those bandits at close range without any hesitation.

Because he knew that the bandits also had thunderbolt bombs and other weapons in their hands, but as long as the two sides were completely entangled, they would not dare to use thunderbolt bombs at will, which would injure and kill regardless of the enemy or ourselves.

Therefore, for a while, the two parties were fighting close to each other.

More and more court troops climbed up from the ladder, forcing the bandits to retreat steadily.

(End of this chapter)