The shouts of Ren Duo Ling Ding were passed around in circles, shaking everyone's hearts.

The spring water of Helan Pond and the bell of Wutaishan Temple are the thoughts of many people. Since being kicked out of his hometown, he has only been able to see him in the middle of the night.

For more than a year, every time the Liao people flaunted their might, they could only swallow their anger. The strength is not as good as others, and the backer behind it is not a backer at all, but a sworn enemy for more than a hundred years, and he is even more afraid of Liao. Even if he suffers a loss from the Liao people, he will never help.

Otherwise, how could the Liao people dare to insert their hands in and instigate them to attack Mingsha City? That's a real fearlessness!

"I, the He Lang family, am willing to return to Helan Mountain with the captain!" He Langluo, the patriarch of the small clan attached to the Ren family, was the first to stand up and respond, "Kill back, kill back to your hometown!" ”

"I slander the Pang family and am willing to return to Helan Mountain with the captain!" The remnants of the great clans that were once in power in the country are also responding to the cries of Ren Duo Lingding.

"I am willing to return to Helan Mountain with the Taiwei!"

"My sister Le's family is willing to go back to Helan Mountain with the captain!"

The patriarchs of the clans stepped forward, they were fed up and didn't want to endure it anymore. The soldiers began to raise their arms and chant, and more and more people participated.

"Kill back to Helan Mountain!"

"Kill back to Helan Mountain!"

"Kill back to Helan Mountain!"

After reaching the end, only Helan Mountain was repeated over and over again, and even Renduo Lingding was waving his arms and shouting.

It is the land where the party members have lived and rested for hundreds of years, and it is the water source that they have been drinking since childhood. At the foot of the mountain, there are fields irrigated by snow and river water, and pastures with cattle, alpacas, and horses.

That's their hometown.

All the people shouted in unison, and the momentum spread out in circles, like thunder echoing in the mountains, straight into the sky. Brother Cha was also in a mood, but he still remembered Fang Cai's conversation, and he looked at Ren Duo Xizhong in shock: "You knew the Tao beforehand?!" ”

"Ye Poma's side will also follow along, and he can't stand it anymore." Rindo did not answer directly, he was intoxicated by the scene in front of him, he turned around and shouted at Brother Cha, "Brother Cha, haven't you had enough of your days here?!" In the Bronze Gorge, we are dogs on a leash around our necks! Back to Xingling, that is the wolf that can run thousands of miles. I'd rather die at the foot of Helan Mountain than live in this ravine! ”

"If you really want to occupy Xingling, the Liao people will not do it, and the Song people will not sit idly by." Brother Cha regained a little calm, "Song Liao doesn't want to see another big white country." There is another Emperor Jingzong! ”

"Then it's okay to give Xingling to the Song people." Renduo Xizhong's smile has the unique loyalty of the Ren family, "The Liao thieves attacked Weizhou, how can we and the Great Song courtiers not worry about the monarch?" ”

After that, he laughed, "When the time comes, the Song people and the Liao people will fight!" As long as we can return to the foot of Helan Mountain, our road ahead is wide and high! ”

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Chongpu yawned at the enemy troops outside the city.

It's already ...... It's already ...... How many days has it been?!

How many days have he been besieged by the Liao, and he has been stretching his fingers for a long time, and he doesn't understand. He only knew that the wound on his cheek was always itching now, and he wanted to be scratched twice!

Life is dizzy, and my beard has not been taken care of for a long time.

Chong Pu still didn't figure out whether the Liao people outside the city wanted to blackmail the imperial court and sent troops, or whether they sent troops in order to consume the remnants of Xingling's party.

Over the course of a few days, the Dangxiang people died countless times outside the city. The tactics of attacking the city were effective, but the party members suffered too many casualties in the process to support such a way of fighting.

If it weren't for the fact that there were always two or three thousand cavalry of the Liao army guarding outside the city, Chong Pu estimated that the number of heads captured could be two thousand, and thirty percent of them could be fake Khitan with the Khitan hairstyle - the head is different from the clothing, and if the hairstyle and clothes are not changed, it can still be seen that it is a party member, but as soon as the head is cut off, it is the real Khitan.

Below the level of Chongpu, 3,000 officers and soldiers scratched their hearts and livers, and were indignant at the behavior of the Liao people in dragging the corpses back. The beheadings of the six or seven hundred Khitan troops can be replaced with third-level merit.

The thunderbolts outside the city died down. These days, the Liao people have built a total of more than 50 thunderbolt guns. But most of them were destroyed by the city's eight-bull crossbows and thunderbolt cannons. In the process, the walls collapsed in several places, but they were not serious, only the outer wall skin, and the walls themselves were still strong and solid.

However, the Liao people also adapted to the counterattack on the city, and under the observation of the spaceship hovering high, every move of the defenders in the city was within their observation range. As soon as he found that the Song people had transported two sharp weapons, he immediately changed the attack position. In this way, he dodged and chased, and finally let all the remaining thunderbolts outside the city escape.

But that's all, the current situation is that the enemy troops outside the city can't attack it, but the defenders in the city can't attack it either. The two sides stared at each other with big eyes, and there were some siege and defense scenes in the middle.

Chong Pu has been suspecting for the past few days that most of the Liao people's camp has not many people left, except for two or three thousand cavalry, most of the Liao people should have changed to ambush Weizhou reinforcements.

As long as you come back with the heads of reinforcements, the blow to the defenders in the city is tantamount to pushing more than 100 thunderbolts from the camp in one go.

When I think of the Thunderbolt Cannon, I see two spaceships floating high in the air in the distance. With a pair of sharp eyes hanging above his head, Chong Pu gave up the idea of going out of the city to fight back several times. If you want to attack, you can only choose the night, but how can the Liao people suffer again?

If there was a way to shoot the ship down, there would be a lot more options for the next step.

Chong Pu only mentioned it in the daily brainstorming meeting, and someone had already thought of a way.

"How about fireworks?" Feng Zhen, a staff member who was a few years younger than Chong Pu, asked.

"Fireworks?"

"Winter is coming, and the New Year is coming in a blink of an eye, and a batch of fireworks and gunpowder happened to be obediently sent from the capital." Feng Zhen seemed to know the capital well, "The fireworks and meteors in Liu's shop, but those that can rush to the sky are taller than the iron tower in the capital. It is rumored that the best kind of flying fire meteor can fly up to a height of fifty or sixty zhang and then explode. Arrows driven by gunpowder can also fly farther. ”

When Chong Pu heard this, he groaned.

A mile away, and at a height of thirty zhang, with the range of an eight-bull crossbow, it was not that it could not be reached, but that it could not be shot at all. The spaceship is floating in the air, and if you want to shoot steadily, it has nothing to do with strength, you really have to rely on luck.

The luck of shooting Xiao Darin with an arrow at the head of the city of Shanzhou, Chong Pu has not tried it in the past few days, but the facts have proved that he does not need to buy horse tickets for this year or even next year, and he will definitely not win.

"What if I can't reach it?" Chong Pu felt that the Liao people's spaceship was a little far away.

"Then fill it with more gunpowder, and the more gunpowder you can fill, the higher and faster you will naturally be able to fly."

"Bamboo tubes can't necessarily be suppressed?" Chong Pu shook his head, "And this scale of demolition fireworks is not something that a layman can afford." ”

That said, but Chong Park now thinks that the meeting that gathers the wisdom of everyone is really useful, and the results of many things come out when they are summed up. As for today's proposal, Chongpu doesn't care, it's just fireworks anyway.

In two days, it will be time to sacrifice to the god of the stove, so it is better to send the king of the stove to heaven two days in advance.

"That's it. Try it first. ”

Chong Pu thought and yawned again. waved his hand to let Feng Zhen take charge of his proposal.

The kind of gunpowder arrow that Feng Zhen said, Chong Pu actually has some impressions, and it seems that he has seen it once in "The General Essentials of the Martial Arts". In the blink of an eye, Chong Pu felt as if it was another military book.

Maybe it's because I stayed up late, and my brain is really a mess. After thinking about it, Chong Pu completely gave up and continued to think about the problem.

It's really boring.

The Liao army outside the city did not attack, nor did they retreat, so they just sat down and wasted time. Although there has been no in-depth contact with the Liao people in the past, the Liao people's style of acting has long been deeply imprinted in the hearts of every Northern Song people. This is not at all like the style of the Liao people.

It's not that Chongpu didn't think about attacking again, but because of a loss, the Liao people were heavily guarded and had no chance at all. Now there is still no news from Weizhou City, and it is estimated that it is already guarding against the Liao people's encirclement to send reinforcements. I don't know what happened to Yanzhou City, Chong Pu knows his father very well, and he should be ready to attack at this time.

"Inspection, inspection."

Chong Pu looked up, but it was Feng Zhen who was back again, and behind him, there was a small group of more than a dozen people carrying a bunch of things.

"Come back and get fast!" Chong Pu muttered, "You've been doing it for a long time, right?" As he spoke, he glared at Feng Zhen again.

Feng Zhen smiled but didn't answer, turned around and ordered someone to take out the weapon he was shooting.

In fact, there are two kinds, one is a single bamboo tube, which is more slender, with a hooked spear tip in front and two long pieces of wood inserted at the back end, like the tail of a long arrow. The other is to tie twenty bamboo tubes together, each of which is filled with a sufficient number of long arrows, but the long arrows are all wrapped in a circle, and a lead is drawn out of it, and the other leads will form a line.

"Let's try it first." Chongpu was too lazy to listen to the principles and steps explained, and went directly to the experiment.

Feng Zhen took a bamboo tube that looked like a long arrow and used a wooden frame to erect it on the head of the city. The head raised high was aimed directly at the direction where the Liao spaceship was.

The Eight Ox Crossbow, also known as one gun and three swords and arrows, is not cheap and extremely difficult to build. Even if the price of iron has fallen sharply now, the iron tools of the people are getting cheaper and cheaper, and the iron spear for the eight-bull crossbow is not cheap, and the weight should be uniform before and after. As a result, the cost is said to be about the same as a piece of foot armor, and this flying fire meteor with bamboo tube and gunpowder is much cheaper at a glance.

Picked up the torch and lit the fuse, and the sparks sank into the bamboo tube.

And then...... Then there was no movement.

There is no fire, no sound, and what is quiet is a simple bamboo tube.

Chong Pu, Feng Zhen and the others waited with bated breath for a while, and when they saw that there was still no movement, Feng Zhen stepped forward and picked up the dumb meteor. Chong Pu also took two steps forward, wanting to see what was going on. But at this moment, with a bang, a puff of flame suddenly erupted from the end of the bamboo tube, and the long flame tail shrouded Chongpu inside, and suddenly burned a kind of Pu's unkempt beard.

In a panic, Feng Zhen hurriedly threw away the bamboo tube, stepped forward and beat him, extinguishing all the sparks on Chong Pu's head and body. But Chong Pu was already gray at this time, and even his beard was half scorched.

There was a pungent smell of burnt fire in the air, and Chong Pu's face was black, even angry and smoky, as black as the bottom of the pot. I was about to open my mouth to reprimand, but I heard a loud bang, and everyone's bodies were shaken, but the bamboo tube that had just been thrown into the city exploded.

Chong Pu's anger was put away, he groaned, and looked up after a while: "This thing seems to be useful." ”