Due to the heavy snow in the sky, the gunpowder is easy to get wet because of the mixed snowflakes, so the Qing army piled all the gunpowder and cannonballs together, more than 100 boxes were piled up nearly two meters high, and the top layer was covered with licorice to block the snowflakes. Yan Yingyuan noticed that there was a box of gunpowder stacked at the bottom of the pile, which may have cracked because the quality of the wooden box was not up to standard, and a lot of gunpowder was scattered on the ground along the cracks.

I don't know if it's because the Qing army didn't notice this at all, or didn't care at all, but Yan Yingyuan knew very well that this was an excellent opportunity, once all these gunpowder and shells were destroyed, then the Qing army's forty or so cannons would immediately turn into scrap metal, thus losing the ability to continue to bombard and collapse the Tai'an city wall, if the Qing army relied on manpower alone to attack the city, Yan Yingyuan was confident that he could hold Tai'an for at least two more days.

"Big brother can't!" Hearing that Yan Yingyuan planned to attack the Qing army camp alone and destroy the ammunition of the Qing army's artillery, Chen Mingyu was taken aback.

"This is too dangerous, big brother, you are the commander of the army, you must not risk your life, let my brother and I go!" Chen Mingyu was resolutely opposed and never wanted Yan Yingyuan to take risks.

"Huh! Big brother, second brother, what are you arguing about? At this time, Feng Houdun came back after setting up a rejection horse, and as soon as he came, he saw Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu arguing, and hurriedly asked strangely.

Chen Mingyu immediately told Feng Houdun about Yan Yingyuan's plan briefly, and wanted Feng Houdun to persuade Yan Yingyuan with him.

"Big brother, this is too dangerous, let's go." Feng Houdun frowned immediately after hearing this, and did not agree with Yan Yingyuan's risk, and proposed to go instead of Yan Yingyuan like Chen Mingyu.

"Third brother, I'll go"

Now it was Chen Mingyu's turn to argue with Feng Houdun, both of them wanted to take this risk for each other, in fact, everyone knew that even if they could complete the task, they would almost die for life, but no one was afraid of the three brothers, they all rushed to grab it, and they wanted to do such a dangerous thing without fear.

"The two brothers don't have to fight, let's go." Yan Yingyuan stretched out his hand to stop between Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun who were arguing, his expression was extremely serious, and before Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun raised any more objections, he continued: "The two brothers know that among the three of us, I have the greatest arm strength and the best archery skills, only I can have the greatest effect, this is related to the life and death of Tai'an tomorrow, and there is no room for loss!" Do the two brothers still have to fight with me! ”

"Big Brother"

Yan Yingyuan was extremely resolute, not giving Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun a chance to oppose it, and turned to a soldier and ordered, "You go find a rope immediately." ”

The soldier nodded, and after a while, he took a rope more than ten meters long, which could be used from under the city wall to the city below. Yan Yingyuan took his special strong bow and a bottle of fire oil and prepared to go down to the city.

"Big brother, you!" Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun shouted at Yan Yingyuan at the same time.

Yan Yingyuan turned around expressionlessly, but did not speak, but his eyes were full of incomparable firmness, which could not be refused.

Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun's lips moved, and finally they couldn't say anything to persuade them, but they both took a deep breath, and reluctantly smiled: "Big brother, take care!" I wish the eldest brother success in one fell swoop and return safely! ”

"Borrowing the auspicious words of the two brothers, the eldest brother is gone!" Yan Yingyuan smiled, and after glancing at the Qing army camp in the distance, he grabbed the rope and quickly jumped down, and followed the rope to the city in just one breath.

Once the strong man is gone, I don't know if he will be able to return.

The Qing army camp was about 500 meters away from the Tai'an city wall, and after Yan Yingyuan came to the city, he quickly approached the Qing army camp under the cover of night, 400 meters, 300 meters, and 200 meters

Getting closer and closer to the Qing army's camp, Yan Yingyuan had to be cautious, because once he was accidentally discovered by the Qing army patrolling the camp, not only would the plan be impossible to achieve, but his own life would also be at risk, which was very dangerous.

Yan Yingyuan lay on the ground, his eyes staring at the Qing army camp two hundred meters away, due to the heavy snow, Yan Yingyuan's body was soon covered with snowflakes, like a snowman. Although there was the cover of night, but at such a close distance, Yan Yingyuan only dared to crawl forward slowly, and finally, Yan Yingyuan came to a distance of only one hundred meters from the Qing army camp, and the place where the Qing army had gunpowder was about thirty meters away from the edge of the Qing army camp, a total distance of one hundred and thirty meters.

Because Yan Yingyuan was different from ordinary people, his strength was much greater than that of ordinary people, and he used a special strong bow, this distance of one hundred and thirty meters was undoubtedly within the range of Yan Yingyuan's strong bow.

At the entrance of the Qing army's camp, observation posts about three meters high were set up in many places to observe the surrounding situation and prevent the enemy from sneaking attacks.

"Hey, this snow is so damn too big, it's really freezing to death" A Qing soldier on the observation post was a little shivering with cold, and he didn't bother to observe the surrounding movements all the time, because he didn't think that the Ming defenders in Tai'an City dared to come out to sneak attack, there were too few defenders in Tai'an, and daring to come out to sneak attack was tantamount to eggs hitting stones, and it was simply looking for death! Therefore, almost all the Qing soldiers at the observation post did not have much vigilance, and only cared about breathing into their frozen hands from time to time to keep warm.

"Hmph, the Qing army is careless, God helps me!" Yan Yingyuan was lying in the snow, his back was full of snowflakes, if he didn't pay attention to it, he couldn't tell that it was a person lying there.

Yan Yingyuan took out two pieces of cloth, soaked them in fire oil, and wrapped them in the arrows of the two arrows, the reason why they were two was because although he was confident in his archery skills, he could not allow any mistakes in this situation, so he prepared an extra arrow, in case the first arrow did not hit once, there was still a chance to make amends.

Yan Yingyuan lay on the snow, staring at the pile of gunpowder one hundred and thirty meters away, originally there was a box of gunpowder at the bottom of the box that was crushed by the weight of the upper boxes to crack a crack, and a lot of gunpowder spilled out, but because it was snowing all the time, the scattered gunpowder had been covered by heavy snow, and most of it might be too late if it didn't shoot.

Yan Yingyuan estimated the specific direction, sensed the wind speed again, and then took out the fire fold and ignited the cloth on the two arrows, and suddenly, an extremely obvious fire appeared in the dark night.

"Huh? What is that! "Qing army camp, a Qing soldier who was observing on a three-meter-high observation post yawned, suddenly, he found a striking fire suddenly appeared a hundred meters in front of him, how could there be a sudden fire in the snow a hundred meters away in the middle of the night, the soldier thought he was wrong, and felt rubbing his eyes and looking again.

At this moment, a figure suddenly stood up in that place, the figure was holding a strong bow, and a flaming arrow had been placed on it, and the Qing soldier could even see the expressionless expression on the figure's face.

The soldier's eyes widened instantly, and he shouted, "Attack the camp!" There are enemy troops attacking the camp! ”

The gong was struck instantly, but before the other soldiers in the Qing army camp could react, Yan Yingyuan had already bent his bow and set up arrows, and as soon as his fingers loosened, the bowstring made a loud sound, and the arrows flew out, shooting out like a meteor in the dark night sky towards the gunpowder pile one hundred and thirty meters away.

"Whew!"

"Boom"

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