Bu Shitu looked at the densely packed soldiers from the four towns outside the city with fear.
"Why do I see these people are different from the past few days? They all look like they have been injected with chicken blood." He stared at these people with his old, bloodshot eyes wide open.
The whole spirit of these people looks completely different. They almost look like a different person. A few days ago, I wrote about ruffians lazily sunbathing. Now, they are all so powerful that they want to jump into the city immediately and chop them down.
A few heads.
Sobud's eyes turned red with anger. "These damn Ming people, they used the money from the auction of our cattle, sheep and livestock to repay these people's wages. The reward of fifty taels for a head was also cashed in."
Now, these people are waiting to chop off their heads and make a fortune. Jinong, look at their silly expressions and wolf-like eyes. When the fighting starts, they will look like crazy."
Bu Shitu became furious and shouted: "We are fighting with them, these devils, villains, shameless people. The Immortal God will punish them. Arm all the men and women who can draw the bow, I will fight them."
To the last person."
Hu Mingxiu had been promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief because of his military exploits. During this period, after Zhang Shize took over Shanxi Town, he replaced all the rotten officers. These officers transferred from various places were all descendants of the British government. Although they could not be said to be incorruptible, at least they were
Also talk about rules.
There is a bottom line for doing things, and soon a large number of soldiers who have made meritorious service at the grassroots level were promoted to serve as junior officers such as corps commanders, small flags, and general flags. The soldiers not only received the due pay, but also gained a ladder to rise through their own efforts.
.Immediately burst out with great enthusiasm.
Zhang Shize was also surprised to find that it was not that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were cowardly and could not hold up the wall with mud. It was that the world was too unfair to them. Their efforts and rewards were not proportional. Naturally, no one worked hard. Now, they have a way to rise.
, naturally everyone seizes the opportunity automatically and spontaneously.
During today's siege, Hu Mingxiu's fifty-man general flag was used as the main force for the climb. They all wore brand-new mandarin duck battle coats with a layer of chain armor inside. These chain armors were all captured by the Beijing camp, Yang Fan
He looked down upon these rags and gave them to the soldiers of the four towns along with shields, weapons, leather armor, etc.
They stood excitedly in front of the formation. In front were ten shields, and behind were two ladders. During this period, there was no siege. One side was building siege weapons, and the other was organizing an auction of loot.
They did not wait for the order to attack. Instead, they saw Uncle Dingyuan's servants carrying some dark tubular objects to the front of the formation.
Each of these people was carrying a pickaxe and a shovel. Hu Mingxiu knew what they were called engineers. They were soldiers, and they did the hard work of building roads and bridges, digging ditches and drainage, and building forts. But I heard that their military pay was
Really tall, like three times that of an ordinary soldier.
Hu Mingxiu watched as they used Luoyang shovels to make small holes in the ground, then lowered the gunpowder pillars wrapped in oil paper and lit them.
Boom! Boom! Boom! A violent explosion.
The small holes were instantly expanded into pits by the explosion.
Hu Mingxiu and his men watched some people shovel the floating soil out of the pit, and then buried the iron buckets at an angle to expose the barrel mouths. After the soldiers buried the iron buckets, they backfilled the floating soil and then watered them.
Tread firmly with your feet.
Only then did Hu Mingxiu realize that the gunpowder was used to dig gun emplacements.
The speed of blasting with gunpowder is too fast, and a gun emplacement can be formed with just one blast. If people had to dig it, it would take at least three cubic meters of earth, and it would take several people several hours to dig it. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is of great significance to be able to repair the fortifications quickly.
He not only lamented that the work of these people was unparalleled, but their efficiency ranked first in the Ming Dynasty.
The heartless cannons were deployed at a distance of 150 meters from the city wall. This distance was carefully prepared. Because the Mongols all used cavalry bows and rarely equipped infantry with large bows. The distance they could throw was only 100 meters.
Fifty meters. So, this location is safe.
The range of the heartless cannon can reach more than 200 meters. Exactly, I can hit you, but you can't hit me.
He stayed all night and ran to the city. He shouted with a loudspeaker made of rolled iron: "Everyone in the city, listen, our army is about to attack the city. You must quickly put down your weapons and leave the city to accept the surrender. Otherwise, once the attack is over,
At the beginning, all the jade and stones were burned, and all the lives were reduced to ashes. It’s too late to regret!”
No one responded to him. The only response was arrows falling like raindrops and scoldings.
Ye Buzuan fled back in embarrassment, and was shot with an arrow in his back. Fortunately, he wore a layer of fish scale armor and a layer of leather armor. The arrow got stuck in the fish scale armor, and the arrow did not penetrate deeply into the flesh.
Zhang Shize chuckled and said, "You just like to do these tricks. I know it's useless. They still have the idea of invading the Mongolians from the desert. How can they surrender?"
Yang Fan said: "I don't have any hope, even if there are dates, there will be no shots. Since they choose to be stubborn to the end, let the engineers fire. I hope their will is as tough as their mouths."
Hu Mingxiu saw the engineers starting to fill up. He didn't know what those white Su Juans were wrapped in, but his intuition told him that this kind of weapon must be very powerful.
"Engineer battalion, fifteen gunpowder projectiles, ready, ignite!" Following the order from engineer battalion commander Wang Ermazi, the engineers lit the fuses with torches, turned around and fired back. They jumped in and blasted them with gunpowder.
A section of trench.
After jumping into the trench, they stood on their toes, covered their ears with their hands, and squatted on the ground with their mouths open.
After all, the power of the gunpowder projectile was too great, and they had to prevent being injured by the shock.
boom!
Boom! Boom!
Fifteen heartless cannons spurted out flames one after another, and the ground trembled violently.
The officers and soldiers of the four towns standing far behind were startled.
Although they have all experienced the scene of firing a general cannon and even a red cannon. Although the sound of that one is loud, it is not as scary as the one that spits out raging flames.
This thing has a lot more propellant than the red cannon. When the cannon is fired, the ground shakes, and it feels like it's shaking under your feet, as if there's an earthquake.
Visible to the naked eye, round objects wrapped in sacks flew out one by one. They drew perfect parabolas in the air and then fell towards the city wall.
Some of these round cakes landed in front of the city wall, and some flew into the city. Three round cakes landed on the city wall.
These round cakes weighed more than 20 kilograms. This weight immediately hit the city with swords and shields to prevent the Ming army from climbing the city. The dense crowd smashed into an open space. The fuse was still burning after it fell to the ground.
With.
These shells use a fuse-controlled time detonation method. Before firing, just use scissors to cut the required length along the scale on the fuse according to the range, wind, etc.
Boom! Boom! Boom! A powerful explosion sounded. Fifteen steaming and rising fireballs exploded.
Each of these round cakes was packed with twenty-five kilograms of chemical fertilizer and explosives, equivalent to fifteen kilograms of TNT. Under the huge power, the strong light that rose up almost blinded many people's eyes.
Flesh and blood were flying all over the city wall, and limbs were even blown into the sky.
The Dongsheng City Wall, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was trembling, whining, and bursting with countless cracks under the attack of fierce explosions both inside and outside. With a loud bang and fierce dust covering the ground, the city wall collapsed.
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This chapter has been completed!