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The intermittent shelling had been going on all morning, and the siege troops possessed by the turtles were all within the range of the Qing artillery. It was nothing more than that the artillery bombardment of the Ming army was too fierce, and the Qing army was a little reluctant to climb the city wall for a while.

As soon as these words came out, Chen Kai seemed confident and smiled at Li Dingguo. On the contrary, although he nodded when he heard this, he inevitably had some doubts in his heart, which was nothing more than inconvenient to express.

Speaking of which, Chen Kai tossed all morning, just controlling the rhythm of the siege troops and the artillery bombardment, and there were some casualties at first, and it didn't seem to have achieved any good results. In this way, it is consumed under the city, and there is a way that "one drum is vigorous, and then it declines, and three is exhausted", and the drumming and gold that come and go, the morale of the soldiers has long been discharged, and even if it is attacked again at this time, it will not have too good results.

This is a common situation, but Chen Kai didn't seem to think so, said to Li Dingguo, and then gave an order.

"Whole army, raise the door panel!"

The order was quickly conveyed to the towns and battalions, and the troops arrayed here had already been allocated a large number of door panels before they set out, and they were supposed to be used to defend against arrows when the ants were attacking the city, at least under normal circumstances. But at this moment, the army is still located a mile or two away from the city wall, is it possible to walk over it like this, and then it is not necessary to lie down tiredly?

The judgment of the civilian officials to blindly command came spontaneously, but the military orders were like a mountain, and the generals did not dare to disobey them, so they had to follow the orders. At this time, the governor's banner on Chen Kai's side was waving in an orderly manner, and Gao En of the artillery team saw this, and directly ordered all artillery groups to stop firing. Immediately, a fast horse galloped out from Chen Kai's side, and rushed directly to the front of the two armies, and the officer on the horse held an iron horn and shouted loudly to the city.

"The general, Cao Hongxi, is the deputy captain of Chen Fujun's guards. On the orders of my family's army, I told you and others that if you surrender now, there is still a way to live, if you dare not obey, after the city is broken, the jade will be burned! ”

Cao Hongxi's question spread all over the city wall under the amplification of the iron horn, and even the Qing army behind the city wall could still be heard. He used the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, but with a slight accent from his hometown, and it was naturally impossible for the Qing army in the city not to understand it. Soon, the Qing army in the city responded-several arrows were shot, most of them were missed, and only one was shot straight at him, only to see the deputy captain of the guard who was born as an officer of the guard drew his sword, and the arrows were cut off. Immediately, he rode back to Chen Kai's banner.

The Ming army's offensive in the morning was indeed not convincing, and it was only normal for the Qing army to react from this. The generals have begun to mumble that Chen Kai is poor in skills and pinning their hopes on persuading the Qing army, which is ridiculous to the extreme. On the other hand, Chen Kai didn't know anything about it, but he just smiled sarcastically in the direction of Xinhui County, and then waved his hand, and the handsome flag waved again, followed by the artillery team and the Ming army drummer who had already arrived halfway to the siege force waved the flag in reply.

Next, the Ming troops who saw the siege troops hid under the rushing car one after another, and if they couldn't hide, they covered themselves with shields as much as possible, like a group of turtles with shrunken heads. On the side of the artillery team, Goun's flag waved, and the artillery team on the east side did not move at all, as if they had not seen it at all, and the artillery team on the west side was only the largest Hongyi cannon, the gun crew of the imitation of the spirit gun that had never fired, and the other gun crews were also blind.

The twenty-four-pounder cannon had already been aimed and loaded, and the gun crew adjusted it from top to bottom, and then waved the flag directly to Chen Kai's side. Receiving the order to approve, the gun commander immediately lit the seal. Immediately afterwards, the cannon sounded, and huge shells roared out, and they quickly crossed a trajectory in the sky in front of the two armies and hit the city wall directly.

The power of the 24-pounder cannon was naturally not comparable to that of the 18-pounder, 12-pounder, 9-pounder, or even six-pounder guns that had been fired repeatedly this morning. However, under normal circumstances, it is just a little stronger. At the very least, the observation posts in the city seemed to be shaking a little more than the earlier shelling.

However, this feeling only existed for a second or two. Then, at the same time that only a loud noise that could directly deaf people's ears was heard, the violent vibration under his feet was almost instantaneous, and all thoughts, feelings, and thoughts disappeared into the smoke in the sky and the pillar of smoke and dust that rose into the air.

A section of the city wall to the west of the North City Gate, along with the entire North City Gate, and the wider area, disappeared into the smoke and dust in an instant. From a distance, it seems that the cannonball shattered the seal of the demon dragon under the town of Nightmare, and once the demon dragon that had been trapped here for a long time escaped, it directly smashed the seemingly untouchable huge wall from the bottom up as if it had pierced a piece of paper. The demon dragon was wrapped in the smashed rammed earth and wall bricks, jumped up, and went straight to the sky, with the magnificent momentum of rushing straight to the South Heavenly Gate, and it was like a five-color stone crack, and the stone broke the sky!

Long Fei Nine Heavens, the rammed earth and city bricks that were originally suppressed on it naturally did not have the qualifications to ascend to the heavenly court with him. The smoke and dust were overwhelming, and the smashed and crumbling blocks of rammed earth and city bricks seemed to have been shot out by artillery, and through the smoke and dust, swept through everything in this area. Whether it is a person or a building, the masonry and earth blocks do not matter whether they are high or low. In particular, the command post of Yunlong, who was in that area, was drowned in the storm of bricks and earth in an instant.

The tiles are broken, the rafters are broken, the windows are broken, the doors are broken, and people are not spared. It was just an instant, and the private room on the third floor turned into a sea of blood, struggling and crying, but it still couldn't penetrate the aftermath of the loud bang.

The storm of masonry and earth blocks does not distinguish between high and low, and naturally does not distinguish between inside and outside the city. At this moment, the flying bricks and stones swept through the smoke and dust, and the siege troops of the Ming army bore the brunt of the attack, like hail hitting the baffle of the siege equipment, the top and the door panel and shield of the Ming army, crackling and so lively.

The protection of the siege troops has been as tightly as possible, but the flying bricks and stones are large and small, the small ones are fine, if they are large, even the door panels may not be able to bear it, and the Ming army behind can only support it.

In comparison, the Ming troops lined up in the distance were not affected by the impact, but there were still a large number of stones splashing in, hitting the door panels that had been prepared for a long time.

Where the Chinese army is, there are also a few stones flying from Chen Kai's side, but it doesn't hurt. At this moment, it is crucial to look at the city wall in the distance, which is still hidden under the smoke and dust, and you can't see the whole picture, especially how much damage has been done to the city wall.

It seemed that the heavens heard Chen Kai's heart, or the shaking of the sky and the earth accelerated the flow of air, a breeze blew, and the smoke and dust quickly dispersed in the direction of the city. In the distance, about twenty or thirty meters from the north gate, a huge crack rises from the root of the city wall, blooming on the city wall like a flower, forming an unequal inverted triangle gap.

On the edge of the broken city wall, there are earth, stone and bricks falling from time to time. Chen Kai couldn't take care of this anymore, turned his head, and what he saw, Lian Chengbi was already stunned and motionless, as if he had been clicked on the acupoint. And Li Dingguo's side seemed to be shocked, but once he felt Chen Kai's gaze, he immediately greeted him.

"Collapse method!"

"That's right, it's the collapse method!"

Even if it was a twenty-four-pounder cannon, it was impossible for one cannon to directly bombard the city wall of Xinhui County, the third largest city in Guangdong. There is only one explanation, that is, Chen Kai had already planted explosives under the city earlier, and that shot was just a signal.

Recalling Fang Cai, Chen Kai opened his mouth to say that a miracle was about to happen, and at that time, Li Dingguo had already noticed the flag waving on the side of the siege troops. Now that I think about it, although the drummer is not far from a rushing car, he is closer to the mouth of the tunnel, obviously coming out of the tunnel, and telling Chen Kai that everything is ready.

Li Dingguo's categorical cut, Chen Kai's response was also justified. This method has been used by many people in the Ming Dynasty, but the success rate is very low. Therefore, attacking the city, whether it is the Ming and Qing dynasties, still likes to use the tactics of the cold weapon era, and playing some high-tech things is basically the Hongyi cannon to collapse the city wall.

This technology is not non-existent in this day and age, but it is not mature. Chen Kai clearly remembered that Zheng Chenggong had used the collapse method when he attacked Zhangzhou and Changtai County, but he detonated the gunpowder without digging a place, and the result was just a joke about blowing up a hole in the ground.

For this reason, he used to study these things carefully. In fact, it is not difficult to understand from the principle - digging under the city, sealing the opening, and reinforcing it with civil engineering masonry. Igniting the gunpowder with a fuse, the gunpowder deflagrates, instantly producing a huge amount of gas. Such a huge pressure force must be released, then the direction is naturally the weakest of the six directions of up, down, left, right, front and back, and aside from the earth and the specially reinforced seal, then the direction of the ground, the upward direction is naturally the only flaw, even if there is a city wall on it, it cannot block such a huge pressure of energy.

However, there are many details to be aware of. For example, whether the gunpowder burial point is located under the city wall, for example, the excavation process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, for example, the tunnel can only dig a short tunnel because it is not ventilated, and it cannot be too long, for example, the tunnel should not be too wet, so as not to cause the gunpowder to be damp and cannot be detonated, and for example, the fuse......

There are a lot of details that need to be paid attention to, but fortunately, although Li Dingguo's acupoint attack did not work, it solved a package of problems for Chen Kai. Even, due to Li Dingguo's failure, when Yunlong sealed the entrance of the cave, it was bound to be tightly sealed, thick and sturdy, which also helped Chen Kai a lot, and thus the big bang at this moment was born.

As for the earlier bombardment of the city walls and the control of the tempo to cause more damage, it was nothing more than a cover-up. It's like Chen Kai only sent a real demolition team into the tunnel last night, and the others are just a group of Ming soldiers operating inside according to orders to attract attention. Because, if there are only people along the way, then the city must guess that it is a blast, but if there are people from all walks of life, then according to the habitual thinking of a normal person, it is bound to think of the cave attack operation launched by Li Dingguo the day before yesterday, and it is believed that Chen Kai's bombardment of the city wall and the control of the rhythm are to cover the excavation below.

Li Dingguo had already completely figured out the calculation in this only the moment he saw the current situation of the destruction of the city wall. At this moment, he shouted to Chen Kai, not only sure and affirmed, but also amazed and appreciated.

However, time waits for no one, and at this moment, according to the earlier order, once the rain of rubble is over, the half-besieging troops must abandon the siege equipment and rush to the gap at full speed. Now that those Ming troops had already launched a charge according to the order, Chen Kai immediately bowed to Li Dingguo.

"There is a shortage of officials, and the city capture and street battles in the back are still handled well by His Royal Highness Lao."

At this time, Chen Kai returned the military power, not only Li Dingguo was surprised, but even Lian Chengbi, who was always in a daze on the other side of Li Dingguo, also reacted.

The Ming army besieged Xinhui this time with a lot of troops, including the 40,000 troops of Li Dingguo's headquarters, the troops of the Ming army and the righteous army of various departments in western Guangdong, and Chen Kai's nearly 10,000 reinforcements. But this time it was Chen Kai who was arranged, he did not mobilize too many soldiers and horses in his headquarters, only one Fubiao. The others were mostly Li Dingguo's troops, as well as many troops of the Ming army in western Guangdong.

Using the collapse method to destroy the city wall, Chen Kai must have already succeeded. At this time, according to the normal situation, Chen Kai should mobilize the army of his headquarters as the main force, and other Ming troops as auxiliaries. In this way, it is possible to ensure that the greatest credit goes to the palm of your hand, which is the most common situation in which different factions carry out military missions together.

Just like when Plug Yinxi organized the loyal battalion to attack Changsha, He Tengjiao couldn't help but get a great deal of success from the Plug Yinxi and the loyal battalion of different factions from him, so he transferred him away at the most critical moment of the siege as a superintendent, and sent his own men and horses to continue the siege. Now, Chen Kai has a command, and even Li Dingguo has expressed his willingness to obey the command of his people, but he still acts like this. Obviously, Chen Kai knew very well that these Ming troops had been fighting under the city for several months, and he calmly gave them the credit for capturing the city!

"That's it, you're such a weirdo."

After all, the formation of the reception banquet has taken place, and it is normal for Chen Kai to show favor to Li Dingguo's generals, but there are still a large number of Ming troops in western Guangdong.

At this moment, Li Dingguo sighed, but Chen Kai laughed: "The surname of the country also said the same, and he also said that I should find a Lang Zhong to take a good look." ”

The old things that were resigned from the Chaozhou prefect were turned out by Chen Kai to laugh at himself, and when he heard this, Li Dingguo couldn't help but laugh. However, he was also well aware of the urgency of time and hurriedly issued military orders. In an instant, I saw that the handsome banner of the king of Xining was pressed forward, and the earth-shattering war drums rumbled, and the Ming army, who was still holding the door panel, directly threw down these things for defense, pointed obliquely at the spear, and the long knife was unsheathed, striding towards the direction of Xinhui County.

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