History always changes inadvertently.

Even without Hota Masamori's request for help, the Taira army would still march eastward. Even when he kowtowed to ask for help, the Taira army had already begun to take action.

July 23, the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.

Hundreds of miles away, Suian Fort, which is ten miles away from Weining Fort, is a Dutch-style earthen five-star bastion. This kind of bastion is simple to build, but in fact it is an earthen wall with jerry-rigged materials.

It is not as thick as the Dutch, but even so, such an earthen city is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

A pennant with "Qing" written on the city wall hung weakly on the flagpole. Next to the iron-gray artillery on the earthen ramparts stood two Qing soldiers in uniform. One was sitting by the gun mount and smoking a pipe, while the other

Ren Zhong was holding a flintlock gun. The barrel of the flintlock gun glowed with a cold luster in the sun. He was holding the gun like that, as if he was thinking about something.

This is the dividing line between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is also the frontier of both sides. Although in the past six months, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have purchased tens of thousands of breastplates and cannons from Dalian, the reality is that both sides know that each other is a life-or-death enemy.

Enemy.

And the seeming tranquility here may be broken at any time. This world may be dyed blood red at any time.

Just like this fiery red morning glow.

"Li Donglin, Li Donglin."

Suddenly a hoarse voice interrupted Li Donglin's thoughts. Li Donglin, who was holding a gun, looked at him in surprise.

"Do you think the Ming army will come over?"

Wang Tun asked.

"definitely will."

Li Donglin said without thinking.

"They have captured Shengjing. As long as they look back, they will definitely come and attack us."

Sitting on the ground, Li Donglin muttered.

"It's all a matter of time anyway."

"Why……"

Wang Tun sighed and then said.

"Tell me, what's going on in this world? The Qing Dynasty was so powerful back then, but why did it turn around and become like this?"

"What does it look like?"

"It's like this now. If you look at it, the momentum of the Qing Dynasty has made the Ming Dynasty unable to fight back. The Ming army didn't even dare to leave the city. But what about now? Look at..."

What do you see now?

Naturally, look at the current situation. Not only did the emperor escape to North Korea, but Prince Rui was also driven out of Shengjing and fled to the grasslands.

"How long do you think we can stay here?"

"Why do you care so much? There's someone tall enough to support you..."

As Wang Tun said this, he stood up and stretched. When he looked towards the outside of the city, he suddenly screamed.

"Quick, go call someone, there's something going on over there from the Ming people!"

Wang Tun's screams startled everyone in the outpost. The Qing troops on the earthen base quickly rushed to the earthen platform and looked into the distance.

"What did you see?"

Li Donglin looked outside the city.

"Over there, on the edge of the woods, I saw reflections. It seemed that there were many people walking around there. They must be the Ming army!"

Wang Tun pointed at the woods two miles away and shouted loudly.

"Aren't you dazzled? It's nothing..."

Hearing the noise and rushing over, Thorda took out his clairvoyance. This thing was made in Dalian. It was cheaper than the Westerners. It only cost a mere one hundred taels of silver each! The emperor specially assigned one to the castle. He held up his clairvoyance and looked at it.

Looking at the forest, I immediately took a breath of cold air.

"Oh my God..."

Thorda shouted loudly.

"Quick, hurry up, guys, the Ming army is about to attack the city!"

"My lord, my lord...what did you see?"

Everyone was frightened by Niu Lu's reaction.

"Quickly, send a messenger quickly to deliver a message to Donggou. The Ming army is invading."

Thorda shouted loudly in blunt Chinese while shouting to the city.

"Quick, everyone hides in the cannon hole, everyone hides in the cannon hole..."

The artillery hole, which is specially used to block artillery attacks, is under this kind of earth-built bastion. Then he looked at Li Donglin and the others who looked frightened and said.

"The Ming army is about to attack. Just watch them from the city wall. Once the Ming army starts to attack the city, you will beat the gong, you know?"

After giving a few instructions, Torda and the others went down to the city, leaving only Li Donglin, Wang Tun and the others standing guard on the city wall.

Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, and everyone looked at each other in confusion for a moment.

"Brother Wang, what should we do now?"

"What should I do? Just wait until death."

Wang Tun shouted angrily.

"Who doesn't know that the Ming army's artillery is powerful? Let's just leave it here and wait to die!"

He said this, but he still walked towards the basket on the side. There was a two-foot-wide void in the middle of several layers of baskets filled with soil. Unless the cannonballs fell in, there would be nothing.

risk.

"Hey, God bless, don't let the shells fall in..."

Hiding in the gap of the fort basket, while Li Donglin was praying, loud noises suddenly came from the direction of the woods in the distance, accompanied by clouds of white smoke puffing out from the woods, and suddenly there was a sound in the air.

There was a strange sound, which sounded like the muffled sound of a broken bellows. The sound got closer and closer, and then it suddenly hit the courtyard of the fortress.

Surprisingly, there was no legendary earth-shattering explosion. The legendary scene of flying flesh and blood also did not happen.

what happened?

It seems different from what others have described!

Is it misfiring?

Li Donglin, who was lying in the fort basket, originally waiting for the earth-shattering explosion, and the brothers around him all looked at each other in confusion.

How is this going?

Why didn't those shells explode?

"Dong Lin, go out and take a look!"

After listening to Wang Tun's instructions, Li Donglin bravely walked out. No shells fell on the city, so he

There was a probe looking under the city wall.

"There are shells!"

What surprised him was that the shells did not explode after falling to the ground, but instead emitted white smoke. The billowing white smoke was a little yellow, and the shells rolled on the ground while emitting white smoke.

The smoke was very thick and abundant, and soon everything in this small forest fortress was filled with smoke.

This large piece of white smoke became thicker and thicker. Even though he was lying on the top of the city, when the white smoke rose up, Li Donglin was still choked and his eyes watered.

"Ahem...this smoke is a bit weird..."

Just as he was shedding tears and coughing loudly, the Ming army fired another round of artillery shells. The shells that came over still did not explode, and smoke like this kept coming out, but the smoke was a bit weird. Although these

The white and yellowish smoke does not seem to be a threat.

But when it floated to the city wall, Li Donglin and Wang Tun were choked and coughed, and their eyes were burning.

"There's something strange in this smoke..."

But what could be weird?

Nobody knows!

The people on the city wall were choked like this, not to mention the people in the city. Those slaves who were hiding in the house, waiting to escape the bombardment and then go to stop the Ming army from attacking the city. At the beginning,

, didn’t think the smoke was anything, but soon the smoke filled the place where they were hiding, and they were immediately choked and coughed violently and shed tears. Their eyes were like needles, and they kept weeping.

At the same time, they were crying loudly, but when they cried, their throats felt as if they were being burned with a branding iron.

The burning smell was like being in a sea of ​​fire. The slave soldiers were choked by the thick smoke and coughed violently. They all covered their eyes and cried.

At this time, such shells were still being fired into the fortress one after another. The smoke in the city was getting thicker and thicker. Amidst the thick smoke that made people unable to see their fingers, people kept coughing and crying violently.

"my eyes……"

"Cough cough cough, help me, I can't breathe, help me. Cough cough..."

In order to save their lives, they didn't run out in panic. Instead, they covered their eyes and struggled in the thick smoke. Many people ended up writhing on the ground in pain.

Poison smoke!

Although no one knows what these smokes are, everyone has such a term in their mind.

In their opinion, it must be some damn thing created by those damn Ming troops.

Poison smoke!

The smoke must be poisonous. If we don't escape, everyone will definitely be smoked to death in it!

escape!
Chapter completed!