Chapter 226: The City is Broken
At this time, the county government of Peixian County had been requisitioned by Zhou Bo as his camp, and now Xiahou Ying and Peng Yue are also here. It turned out that after Liu Bang withdrew to Feng County, he was worried that Zhou Bo would not be able to hold Pei County alone, so he sent Xiahou Ying and Peng Yue over.
"What do you think Fan Xu wants to do, shouting and scolding outside the city every day, but he doesn't attack the city. This has been fought and fought all day long, and there is no result. Thinking of this, Zhou Bo couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart.
"Just fight, let's be afraid that he won't succeed. Brother Zhou Bo, let me try to fight in the unknown day. Peng Yue said eagerly. Watching Zhou Bo fight every day in the past few days, his heart has long been itching. Peng Yue was originally a bandit in the mountains, and he had met with Liu Bang a few times, and his friendship was neither deep nor shallow. Seeing that Liu Bang was developed, he went down the mountain to join Liu Bang a few days ago. But who knew that as soon as he took refuge in Liu Bang, he met the Shenwu Army to exterminate the rebels, which can be regarded as joining the G Army in 49, which is really a dog.
"Brother Peng Yue, don't be reckless, Pei Gong sent you here as an ambush. It can't be that they haven't attacked the city yet, so let's leak the hole cards first. Zhou Bo hurriedly said.
"Our scouts can't compare to the Qin army, and if the scouts are scattered, there will be no one in ten nights. The order given to us by Pei Gong is to defend Pei County, we do not seek merit but seek no fault, and firmly defend Pei County. Xiahou Ying on the side also said.
Zhou Bo, Xiahou Ying, and Peng Yue have never read military books, so they naturally don't know the art of war, and almost all of these military matters are handled by instinct. The lack of a theory in the art of war allowed them to miss the investigation of the underground. If it was Wang Jian and an experienced general like Meng Tian guarding the city, he would inevitably buckle a few vats at the base of the city wall. In this way, even the slightest noise in the vicinity can be enlarged to the human ear through the large inverted vat.
In autumn, there is a large temperature difference between day and night, and although it is still hot during the day, frost has fallen on the ground at night. Except for the faint flickering of fire on the city wall of Peixian County and the camp of the Shenwu Army, the entire heaven and earth were lonely and empty, and some wild dogs were wandering along the city wall with blood.
"It's cold." Out of the camp, Li Chen pulled the clothes on his body. It's fucking weather, it's okay in the camp, but it's really cold when you get out of the camp.
Under the leadership of Zhao Que, the group drilled into the forest next to the barracks. The entrance to the tunnel was in the middle of the woods, and the trees were just right to block the ears and eyes of Zhou Bo's scouts.
The tunnel was damp and cold, only one person tall and one person wide, and a dim oil lamp hung every ten meters. Soon, the group came to the end of the tunnel, and the tunnel also branched out more than a dozen forks here. Each of these forks leads to a blasting point, and once these dozen points explode at the same time, a hole will be blown out in the front of the Peixian city wall.
To make sure nothing went wrong, the group inspected all the dozen or so blasting points to make sure that enough explosives had piled up under the walls of each blasting site.
"Quick, pull the lead over."
The artillerymen were instructed to pull the lead of the gunpowder pack as long as possible, and the explosion of more than a dozen blasting points together would produce a powerful shock wave. In addition to acting upwards on the city walls, this shock wave will also gush out along the tunnels. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the soldier who ignited the lead, the lead needs to be as long as possible to ensure that there is enough time to evacuate the tunnel.
"Zilazila."
As the fuse ignited, the crackling and burning fuse sparked all the way in the direction of the powder pack. The group saw that the lead was successfully ignited and turned around and ran towards the exit of the tunnel, after all, the thing was miscalculated, the gunpowder bag exploded in advance, and it was buried alive in the tunnel.
Running to the exit of the tunnel in one breath, Li Chen looked back curiously in the direction of the lead like a roe deer. In the deep tunnels, you can still hear the crackling sound of the fire.
"Boom."
Suddenly, it was as if a thunderclap sounded in the sky, and then the earth followed with a sense of vibration. The city wall of Peixian suddenly exploded, and a powerful shockwave threw dirt, bluestone, and flesh into the air.
"The earth dragon has turned over."
"Lei Gong is angry, it is Lei Gong who is angry."
Some of the soldiers who were far away and escaped with their lives cried out one after another.
About ten zhang of the city wall was completely blown out, and the soldiers on this section of the city wall were undoubtedly blown into pulp. The only evidence of their existence is the pit and plasma in the ground.
It's just that as the curling gunpowder smoke dissipated, the black clothes and black armor of the slaughter have quietly touched the gap.
Since the explosion, the streets of Peixian have been in chaos.
"Peng Yue, you take people to the city wall to defend first, and I'll go to find Zhou Bo."
Before Xiahou Ying's words fell, she ran in the direction of the county office.
"Zhou Bo."
"Zhou Bo."
Xiahou Ying stood in the county office in a daze, the county government in front of him was empty, and at this time he was a little panicked in his heart, Zhou Bo would not be blown up.
"What's going on, is it the Qin army attacking the city?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Xiahou Ying's heart was relieved, and then a foul smell of questioning struck.
When the explosion just happened, Zhou Bo was in the thatched house. The thatched house in Pei County is to dig a large hole in the ground first, and then put a few bricks on both sides of the hole. Although the shock wave of this explosion was only a slight vibration when it reached the county office, it was this slight vibration that made the bricks under Zhou Bo's feet loosen a lot. In this way, Zhou Bo happened to sit in the pit.
"The Qin army doesn't know how to blow up the city wall by more than ten zhang, Brother Peng Yue went to stand up first, let's hurry up." Xiahou Ying said to Zhou Bo, who was "smelly" in front of her.
As soon as he heard that the city wall was broken, Zhou Bo couldn't care about the smell on his body, picked up his weapon and ran towards the city gate. The city wall was broken, which meant that Pei County was in no danger to defend, although the troops in Pei County were much more than the Qin army outside the city, but Zhou Bo knew in his heart how much water there was.
The city wall that was blown open was more than ten zhang wide, and there were only a few dozen soldiers who could rush up at a time. At this time, the entire fracture was full of stumps and broken arms, and the space of more than ten zhang was like a rotating flesh mill, crushing the soldiers on both sides.
Peng Yue is leading the elite of the bandit army to defend this gap, these bandits are outlaws, although there is no rule in the battle, but with personal bravery, they can barely hold it for a while.
The Qin army rushed forward with a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, the people in front fell, and the people behind dragged the corpse back, and then mended it themselves. The ground at the gap was soaked in blood, and every inch of advance was paved with blood and flesh.
"Master Hou, it's attacked, it's attacked."
At this moment, the herald with a bloody face came running to report it.