After several years of development, the commercial port outside Ha Tinh City has become a comprehensive area several times larger than the urban area, integrating life, commerce, catering and entertainment. Every day, tens of thousands of people come and go here, foreign businessmen do business here, and immigrants who have just landed here are trying to find their first opportunities.

Of course, there are also people who are not here.

Looking out of the window of the Fulin Inn, the street was full of firecracker residues and confetti, and several naughty children were still looking for unexploded firecrackers on the ground.

"If Li Shouhan takes the gunpowder used to make firecrackers to fight Zheng Ruan's two thieves, then Annan will be decided!" In the room, a young woman sitting on the chair of the sour branch Taishi was full of disdain.

"Your Highness, there are rumors outside that the war in the south is greatly beneficial to the Li family, so the people in the market will celebrate greatly, not at the behest of the Li family." An old man in a chair with a drooping hand replied with a respectful face.

"Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk." There were a few rhythmic knocks on the door, and several people in the house immediately stopped talking, and a little maid opened the door.

But one of his men who had gone to the street to inquire about the news had returned.

"Your Highness, Your Excellency! Sure enough, it was the Li family's progress smoothly! This is the battle report that just came, and the people on the street outside are talking about this! ”

"Ye Shaoning broke through the Lingjiang River, and Wang Bao conquered Mujiaguan. "Is this a war report or a script? Glancing at the title of the battle report, the old man was a little disdainful, but he still read it very seriously.

For a few people indoors, the capture of Mujia Pass seemed to have little to do with the battle in front of them, it was the Li family's action to expand their power, and Ye Qi's crossing of the river attracted their attention.

After paying the price of five wind hunters, Ye Qi broke through the river defense fortifications, and the troops rushed to the south bank of the Lingjiang River.

Those wooden stakes in the water that were used to deal with the Song army back then were a little powerless to deal with today's schooners, but Rao was so, in the face of dense wooden piles, Ye Qi also had to be ruthless, and used one wind hunter after another to forcibly break through the waterway and open the passage for subsequent ships.

A wind hunter rushed up and slammed into a section of the waterway, but, soon, the bottom of the ship was punctured by a wooden stake at the bottom of the river, and the raging river water poured into the cabin. "Open the pods!" At the roar of the sailors, the battleship slammed forward for another section and began to slowly tilt to one side.

"Take the helm! Make room for the brothers in the back! Before abandoning ship, the captain did not forget to tell himself and his brothers.

"These boatmen, these Chinese people are crazy?! With such a good ship, just rush through the waterway? On the embankment, the soldiers of the Ruan family, who were in charge of monitoring the watchtower, looked at the river and the wind hunters went one after another to exhaust their countless manpower and lose the lives of hundreds of people before completing the barrage stakes, which were all over the place. Seeing them, their hearts were pounding, and streams of warm liquid flowed on their bodies.

These people naturally do not know that hundreds of years later, in the same land, in order to teach a group of ungrateful guys, the Chinese are also rushing forward. In order to block the offensive of the Chinese army, the frenzied Annam rats blew up the reservoir in their own territory, trying to lead the troops with water to block the steel torrent of the Chinese army.

Faced with the flood, the commander of the tank unit gave the order to use the tank as a bridge pier for the advance of the troops! A tank drove to the top of the water, and the driver abandoned the car. The second tank rushed up and moved forward on the basis of the first car. In this way, at the cost of several tanks, the passage for the advance of the troops was opened.

Of course, Ye Qi wouldn't know what would happen hundreds of years later, but his momentum of being invincible and overwhelming an enemy had already been revealed!

The embankment is right in front of you!

Ye Qi, who was on the command ship, looked at the crowd of people who were flustered like ants on the river embankment, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, he pulled out the sword at his waist, and pointed forward obliquely, "Landing!" ”

Suddenly, a thunderous roar erupted in the fleet, "Landing!" ”

The fiery red crowd swarmed down from the battleship, like the fury of the sea, across the riverbank, and rushed to the embankment.

"Hurry up! Fast! Fast! "From the first commander, to the team officer, the sentry officer, the officers at all levels have urged their subordinates to quickly climb the river embankment.

The red crowd gradually gathered in front of the river embankment.

The embankment, several feet high, was urged by the Ruan family to cut the embankment into a steep wall, and people were helpless in front of the steep wall, which was almost like a wall. Without climbing tools, it is difficult for personnel carrying weapons to climb such a steep wall, not to mention that the Guards Battalion and the two Qilin and Phoenix battalions also have a large number of artillery and other heavy equipment.

"My lord! How can this be?! "Huang Shi'an, the battalion officer of the Qilin Middle Battalion, was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. There is no way not to be in a hurry, the troops are piled up under the river embankment, the follow-up troops are still getting off the boat and landing on the shore, and the forward cannot open the passage, if at this time, the enemy army launches a counterattack, without artillery fire, just using the relatively primitive and traditional guard weapons such as rolling wood and stones, it can make the attacking troops suffer heavy casualties and even lose their combat effectiveness.

Looking at the soldiers who were densely packed in front of the steep wall and climbed up the ladder, Ye Qi habitually gritted his teeth, "Order the troops who have landed on the shore to march to the two wings and expand the territory," Ye Qi in this era naturally didn't know the word landing field, but everyone understood the territory.

"Also, order the troops on the ship not to get off the ship in a hurry, but to move the six-pounder cannon and powder keg down first. Especially the powder keg! Be quick! ”

Several guns were laboriously carried down from the ship to the sound of the earth's horns, and advanced to the steep wall on the muddy river beach.

"My lord, how should I operate, I hope your lord will show me!" Huang Leiting, the commander sent by the artillery division to coordinate the operation, wiped the beads of sweat on his head, took a slight breath, and asked Ye Qi.

Ye Qi pointed to the steel hoe and pickaxe in the gunner beside him, "Send a few people, go over, go to the bottom of the cliff, dig a few holes, fill the powder barrel into it, bury it, and compact it." Then, fire! Lao Tzu wants to use gunpowder to open a way out! ”

"Okay!" Ye Qi's words made Huang Leiting's eyes shine when he heard it, "Isn't this just like opening a mountain and blowing up stones!" Just look at it! However, you also have to give an order for the brothers in each battalion to stand back, to give them room to work and to prevent them from being injured by their own men. ”

In the sharp copper whistle and drum beat, the chaotic landing field just now quickly became neat and orderly, a large number of personnel carrying their own personal weapons, along the river beach to both sides, dozens of soldiers who boarded the river embankment, under the leadership of the first commanders, planted a red flag on the river embankment, for the brothers below the embankment to guide the direction.

Ha Tinh's gunpowder system was already very perfect, and a powder keg contained forty catties of gunpowder as the propellant of artillery. However, this is the first time it has been used as a blast.

Dozens of artillerymen swung their hoes and pickaxes in the middle of the cliff, digging according to the size of the powder keg, and soon the cliff was dug out of huge holes. "That's it! Fill it with gunpowder! ”

All the people present held their breath, their eyes staring at the six-pounder cannon that Huang Leiting personally mastered, and the target aimed at the muzzle was the position where more than 2,000 catties of gunpowder had just been filled, and it had been sealed with soil by the temporary sappers and compacted fiercely.

On either side of the gun emplacement, hundreds of soldiers of the Guards Battalion, who were on the task of selecting the front, stared at the cliff with their eyes fixed on the cliff, carrying the gangplanks unloaded from the ship in their hands. It was intended to be used to climb the embankment.

In people's eyes, the fuse seemed to burn for a particularly long time, but, finally, that little bit of red disappeared.

"Boom!" With a muffled sound, with the anger of the people, the shells flew out of the chamber and rushed towards the cliff!

"Boom! Boom! "The gunpowder cut the cliff several feet high into a gentle slope according to the people's demand, and the dust that flew in the sky stained the people's red military uniforms with red earth.

"Up!" Without waiting for Ye Qi to give an order, the guards of the guards battalion rushed forward with a springboard with a loud shout. In the dusty sky, stepping on the floating soil that is still noisy under your feet, you will cover the slope with chunks of springboards.

The passage forward was opened.

People dragged artillery and rushed up the embankment with shouts!

On the opposite side, there is a dense, three-foot-high, multi-mile deep bamboo skewer array, on which there is still a burst of stench. In the distance of the bamboo sticks, there is a long column of artillery forts.

Several sentries of the Ruan family's army, who were captured by the forward, put down their weapons early, knelt aside, and surrendered to the army. The words kept chanting, "The little ones welcome the big soldiers!" ”

Huang Shi'an picked up a sentry from the ground, "How many of these turtle king eight things are there on the other side?!" ”

"Return to the Great General of the Celestial Empire! The bamboo sticks on the opposite side are about five miles, but the artillery in the fort can hit about three to four miles away. Nothing else! These sentries were probably also very angry, and put them on the front line of the first line to resist the offensive of the South Central Army and act as the first cannon fodder. Just now, several of the forwards of the Nanzhong Army had not yet come to the watchtower, so they came down by themselves to surrender to the Nanzhong Army, especially after that earth-shattering loud noise, several guys were secretly glad that their choice was great, glorious and correct.

Especially when they saw that the handsome and unspoken general looked at the bamboo stick array opposite, and coldly ordered, "Artillery columns!" Get ready to shoot! ”

At his command, the gunners, who looked very strong, quickly pushed through the glittering bronze cannons, waved their hoes and pickaxes across the ground, and set up gun emplacements for the cannons.

"Good Position!" A cannon was reloaded, and the gun commander reported loudly to Huang Leiting and asked for the cannon to be fired.

"Fire!"

An iron ball flew to the bamboo sticks in the distance under the impetus of gunpowder, and after landing, the iron ball broke the bamboo sticks that blocked it under the action of huge kinetic energy, and the high temperature of the iron ball made the bamboo that had been dried quickly carbonized and burned.

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