History always changes inadvertently.

Even if there is no Hotta Masamori's request for help, the Pingyu army will go east. Even when he kowtowed to ask for help, the Pingyu army had already begun to move.

July 23, 14th year of Chongzhen.

Hundreds of miles away, Sui'an Fort, which is more than ten miles away from Weining Fort, is a Dutch-style earthen five-star fortress, which is simple to build, but in fact it is also a cut of corners - the earthen walls are not as thick as the Dutch, but even so, such an earthen city is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

On the city wall, a pennant with "Qing" written on it hung weakly on the flagpole. Next to the iron-gray cannon on the earthen rampart stood two Qing soldiers in uniforms, one sitting by the gun carriage smoking a cigarette pouch, while the other was holding a flintlock pistol with a cold luster in the sun, and he seemed to be thinking about something.

This is the dividing line between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is also the frontier of the two sides, although in the past six months, the Manchus have purchased tens of thousands of cuirasses and guns from Dalian, but the reality is that both sides know that each side is a mortal enemy.

And the seeming silence here can be broken at any moment. This piece of heaven and earth will be dyed a touch of blood red at any time.

It's like this fiery red morning glow.

"Li Donglin, Li Donglin."

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

"You say, will the Ming army come over?"

Wang Tun asked.

"Definitely."

Li Donglin said without thinking about it.

"They have all conquered Shengjing, as long as they turn around, they will definitely come and beat us."

Sitting on the ground, Li Donglin muttered.

"It's a matter of time anyway."

"Hey......"

Wang Tun sighed, and then said.

"Say, 'What's wrong with this world?' At the beginning, the country of the Great Qing Kingdom was so strong, but how could it turn its face and become like this? ”

"What does it look like?"

"It's like this, you look at the past, the momentum of the Great Qing Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom has no power to fight back, and the Ming army doesn't even dare to go out of the city, but now? Look at ......."

Now what?

Naturally, let's take a look at the current situation - not only did the emperor flee to Korea, but even Prince Rui was driven out of Shengjing and fled to the grassland.

"Say, how long can we stay here?"

"What do you care about so much? There's a high top ...... in the sky."

Wang Tun said, he stood up and stretched, and when he looked out of the city, he suddenly screamed.

"Quick, go and call someone, there's movement over there from the Ming people!"

Wang Tun's exclamation startled the entire outpost, and the Qing troops on the earthen fortress hurriedly rushed to the earthen platform and looked into the distance.

"What do you see?"

Li Donglin looked out of the city.

"Over there, on the edge of the woods, I saw a reflection, it seems that there are still a lot of people walking there, it must be the Ming army!"

Wang Tun pointed to the woods two miles away and shouted.

"You're not dazzled, there's nothing ...... about"

Listening to the movement, Torda took out his clairvoyance - this thing is from Dalian, cheaper than Westerners, only a hundred taels of silver! The emperor specially allocated one to the fort, and he raised his clairvoyance and looked at the woods. Immediately gasped.

"My God......"

Torda hurriedly shouted.

"Quick, hurry up and copy the guys, the Ming army is going to attack the city!"

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency...... What do you see? ”

Everyone was taken aback by Niu Lu's reaction.

"Quick, send a messenger and send a letter to Donggou, the Ming army is coming."

Torda shouted loudly in stiff Chinese as he shouted to the city.

"Quick, all hide in the hole, all hide in the hole......"

The artillery hole, which is specially designed to block artillery bombardment, is under this kind of earthen fortress. Then he looked at Li Donglin, who was frightened, and said.

"The Ming army is about to attack, you are staring at them on the city wall, as soon as the Ming army starts to attack the city, you will ring the gong, do you know?"

After a few commands, Tolda and they went down to the city, leaving only Li Donglin and Wang Tun to guard the city wall.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and they all look at each other for a while.

"Brother Wang, what should we do now?"

"What to do? Wait for death. ”

Wang Tun shouted angrily.

"Who doesn't know that the artillery of the Ming army is powerful, let's just wait here for death!"

He said this, but he still walked towards the fort basket beside him, and there was a two-foot-wide gap in the middle of several layers of earth-filled fort baskets, and there was no risk unless the cannonball fell into it.

"Hey, God forbid, don't let the cannonballs fall in......"

Hide in the gap of the fort basket, while Li Donglin prays. At this moment, there was a sudden loud noise in the direction of the woods in the distance, accompanied by clouds of white smoke spewing from the trees, and suddenly there was a strange sound in the air, which sounded like the muffled sound of a broken bellows being pulled, and the sound was getting closer and closer, and then slammed into the courtyard of the fortress.

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

What's going on?

It doesn't seem to be the same as what others have described!

Is it dumb fire?

Li Donglin, who was lying in the castle basket and was about to wait for the earth-shattering explosion, and the surrounding brothers all looked at each other.

What's going on?

Why didn't those shells blow up?

"Donglin, go out and take a look!"

Listening to Wang Tun's instructions, Li Donglin walked out with courage, and no cannonballs fell on the city, so he did

There was a probe looking under the walls.

"There are cannonballs!"

And to his surprise, the shells did not explode after falling to the ground, but emitted white smoke, the billowing white smoke was a little yellow, and the shells were rolling on the ground, while emitting white smoke, the smoke was very thick, and there were a lot of them, and soon this small forest fort was filled with smoke everywhere.

This large cloud of white smoke is getting thicker and thicker. Although lying on the head of the city, when the white smoke rose up, Li Donglin was choked and his eyes flowed out.

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

Just when he was crying and coughing loudly, the Ming army fired another round of shells, and there was still no explosion, and there was still such smoke, but these smoke were a little strange, although these white and yellow smoke seemed to be no threat.

But when it floated to the city wall, Li Donglin and Wang Tun on the city wall were all choked and coughed, and their eyes were also hot and painful.

"There's a weird ...... in this smoke"

But what kind of weirdness could it be?

Nobody knows!

The people on the city wall were choked like this, not to mention the people in the city, those who were originally hiding in the house, waiting to avoid the shelling and then fight to stop the Ming army from attacking the city, at first, they didn't think that the smoke was anything, but soon the smoke spread to their hiding place, and then they were immediately choked and coughed violently and shed tears, a pair of eyes like pins and needles, while they kept crying, they also cried loudly, and when they cried, It was as if there was a soldering iron in his throat, and it was hot.

The hot taste was like being in a sea of fire, so that the Jiannu soldiers were choking on the smoke and coughing violently, and they all covered their eyes and cried.

And at this time, such shells continued to hit the fortress one after another. The smoke in the city was getting thicker and thicker, and in the thick smoke that could not be seen, people kept coughing and crying violently.

"My eyes ......"

"Ahem, ahem, help, I'm out of breath, help. Ahem......"

In order to save their lives, they did not run out in a panic, they all covered their eyes and struggled in the thick smoke. Many people end up just rolling on the ground in pain.

Toxic smoke!

Although no one knows exactly what these smoke are. But such a term popped up in everyone's hearts.

In their opinion, it must be some kind of ghost made up by those Ming soldiers.

Toxic smoke!

This smoke must be poisonous, and if you don't escape, everyone will definitely be smoked to death in it!

Escape!

At this moment, there was only one thought left in everyone's hearts......