Chapter 496: Ying Xiao (Second Update, Ask for Subscription)
Although on the other side of the Yangtze River, you can't feel the shock of the explosion, but you can still see the smoke column, even if it is blocked by the river fog, you can still vaguely see two green signal flares dragging the smoke dragon into the air, a huge smoke column is also rising into the air, where it is diffuse and rolling.
"All the troops are attacking!"
Zhu Guoqiang, who was on the bow of the boat, said calmly, and as soon as his words fell, several signal flares rose from the reeds by the river, and more than 20 fleets roared towards Yuezhou City on the other side of the river.
"Lord Shizi!"
Standing beside him, Mei Chun looked at the huge smoke ball in amazement, even across the river, he heard the loud sound like winter thunder.
"Don't look at me with fairy-like eyes, it's not the thunder I induced, it's a bomb!"
Feeling Mei Chun's gaze, Zhu Guoqiang explained casually.
It's not just a bomb!
And it's timed!
This kind of time bomb is actually the use of acidic liquid to corrode metal wires, release the spring to push the firing pin, and fire the detonator to trigger the explosion. When starting, you need to pinch the fuse flat to let the acidic solution corrode the wire. This simple and primitive time bomb was actually the weapon used by Stauffenberg to assassinate Hitler in the "wolf's den" during World War II.
Last time, Zhu Guoqiang used it to blow up and sink Abatai's ship, sending tens of thousands of Manchu elites to the bottom of the river to feed the fish. This time, it's just a repetition of the old trick, from blowing up ships to bombing people.
The reason why this "beheading" operation was launched was because Zhu Guoqiang himself could not guarantee that Zhang Xianzhong could be captured in one fell swoop, and if he was allowed to escape, he would continue to wander and harm the Quartet. Therefore, since he went south, Zhu Guoqiang has been thinking about this question, how to capture Zhang Xianzhong in one fell swoop.
The best option is "Operation Decapitation".
Send a commando?
It's not impossible, but the risk factor is too great, the success rate is too low, in addition to the beheading of Amin in Afghanistan by Soviet Russia, how many decapitation operations have been successful?
Gotcha, let's go on the bomb!
In order to implement this plan, Zhu Guoqiang deliberately customized a large sitting clock in another time and space, and the reason for choosing a large grandfather clock is because it is big enough!
In addition to being big enough, the appearance of the clock is also beautiful, which is simply ingenious. What is gilded, what artificial rubies, diamonds, in a word, just the favorite thing of the entire moat, but any moat must be able to take a fancy to it at a glance, not to mention the moat, it is Zhu Guoqiang himself, when looking at it, he can't help but think, whether to produce this thing, export to earn foreign exchange, no, export to create gold and silver.
The three-metre-high body of the clock was cast from pig iron into an iron shell containing a full 500 kilograms of explosives – not even a one-ton aerial bomb in terms of the amount of explosives.
This is also Zhu Guoqiang's choice to choose it - big enough, in order to load more bombs, more explosives, in order to ensure that the people around him are blown up, as for Zhang Xianzhong is not near the clock at that time, Zhu Guoqiang really has no way to guarantee, but one thing is for sure, within a radius of forty or fifty meters or even farther away, no one will survive, maybe even hundreds of meters, who knows?
Such a big killer weapon, it's really not in a hurry to test!
All that remains is to send agents to carry out the mission, the people are carefully selected, Li Mingsi is the "internal guard" lurking in Jiujiang, and he knows the affairs of the Zuo family very well, as for the letter, it was also written by the staff around him after killing Zuo Liangyu.
Now, all the plans are going well!
The bomb exploded on time, and even Zhu Guoqiang himself didn't know that the plan went smoothly beyond his imagination - in order to show off his "great martial arts", Zhang Xianzhong specially invited hundreds of civil and military officials and the generals of the battalions around Yueyang City to the "palace", and even when it exploded, he and those generals surrounded the "Golden Bell" and listened to the civil officials write poems for him.
Of course, Zhang Xianzhong never realized that "sending the bell" is definitely not a good word - it is equivalent to sending the end!
This finally sent him away, and even sent him to the end along with dozens of generals around him.
There were no generals in the battalion, and even if there were cronies of the generals, after the explosion of the earth shaking like a mountain, the soldiers of each battalion were like headless flies, and they didn't know what to do at all.
And in this chaos, they were already highly nervous, and in the violent shock, they instinctively shouted loudly.
"The officers and soldiers have robbed the camp!"
Even if it was a blue sky and white day, even if they could see that the person in front of them was their own person, but there were still people who waved their knives and hacked to death the people who were blocking them, and they scattered while slashing and killing, shouting loudly:
"Officers and soldiers have robbed the camp! Officers and soldiers have robbed the camp! ”
When one person shouts, more people shout afterward.
"The officers and soldiers have robbed the camp!"
The men on the watchtower listened, and while striking a gong to warn them, they simultaneously unleashed arrows at the running crowd. Even those who were a little hesitant at first, when the arrow fell on their bodies, they would still be suspicious, and they immediately swung their knives and killed the surrounding "enemies".
There were also many soldiers who had been plundered, and when they saw that the camp was in chaos, they immediately ran towards the outside of the camp, and they brought other people along the way, and for a while, the camp was completely chaotic, and some people shouted loudly after being stabbed.
"Officers and soldiers mixed into the camp" and something like that, while slashing and killing unfamiliar people.
This is the camp howl that the generals are most afraid of throughout the ages!
Contrary to what many people imagine, the camp rules in ancient Chinese military camps were extremely strict, not to mention shouting loudly, and even spreading rumors was life-threatening. Moreover, the military camp is an authentic place of slaughter, and the traditional military regulations have the so-called "17 prohibitions and 54 beheadings", and those who serve as soldiers live in fear, and the mental depression accumulated over time can be imagined. On the other hand, the army is very dark, with officers wantonly oppressing soldiers, veterans ganging up to oppress recruits, and military men forming gangs and factions fighting openly and secretly. Especially before the war, everyone's life and death were uncertain, and they didn't know when they would return to the West, and their spirits at this time were on the verge of collapse.
Sometimes, it may just be a soldier's nightmare screaming, so everyone is infected with this hysterical madness, completely free from the shackles of military discipline and venting frantically. Some clear-headed guys began to copy up the guys to repay grievances, revenge, because many of the soldiers relied on the relationship of their fellow villagers to form gangs, so they began to fight, at this time those officers who usually oppressed the soldiers became the number one target, in the chaos everyone was settling their own accounts, and those who should repay their debts could not run.
This is a traditional military camp, Liukouli, although there is no so-called "seventeen forbidden laws and fifty-four beheadings", but because the soldiers are all soldiers who were coerced and forcibly captured, in order to prevent people from escaping, the camp is often beheaded and killed, and even because some people want to escape, Zhang Xianzhong also ordered people to cut off the legs of thousands of deserters, so that they can escape again. As for the old battalion soldiers bullying the new battalion soldiers, it is even more common.
In these battalions, it is not only repressive, it is simply possible to collapse at any time.
In this chaos, I don't know how many people take advantage of the chaos to make trouble, copy the guys to revenge, revenge, and I don't know how many people want to take advantage of the chaos to escape, escape from the den of thieves, in short, when tens of thousands of people are in chaos, all reason will be wiped out.
"Brothers, come with me and kill!"
In the fierce scuffle, there were people constantly shouting and shouting. But in the center of the most intense there were no more shouts and shouts of killing, only heavy straining, short scolding, chaotic footsteps and the clatter of swords, and the muffled sound of swords and spears slamming against people and heads. The fighting crowd was constantly moving, like a whirlpool in a torrent, sometimes with the flow of people joining in, sometimes with the wounded withdrawing. The people who were in the midst of the rapids and whirlpools, constantly stepping on pools of blood, stepping on dead bodies and seriously wounded people, moving forward, backwards, jumping left and right, sometimes falling themselves, being trampled by others, and then turning into a pile of minced meat.
In such chaos, the original barracks became a battlefield, but everywhere there were people, there were scuffles, and many more people took advantage of the chaos to flee...... 1603368111