If you look down from the sky, you can see that at the western wall of Vladivostok Fort, behind each large shield, there is almost a squatting auxiliary.

They were draped in burning ropes, and in their hands they held a single hand with a wooden handle and a black iron ball in the shape of a thunderbolt.

In addition to the hand-thrown thunder in their hands, each person also had several hand-thrown mines hanging from their waists.

This single-handed thunder is the best secret weapon that Li Dingguo used to deal with the besieging Qing army. This kind of hand-thrown thunder is an improved version of the earth-shaking thunder made of pig iron and filled with black powder, and it is also the biggest reliance that Li Dingguo used to defend Vladivostok Fort.

In Li Xiaojun, the earliest single soldier earth-shaking thunder, which has not escaped the nest of the Daming Weapons Bureau, is still designed as a large round iron ball with an iron shell of 15 catties and a black powder of 12 catties inside.

But soon, Li Xiao discovered that although this kind of sky-shaking thunder was powerful, it was too bulky, difficult to throw far, and too much physical consumption for the thrower.

Finally, after field testing, Li Xiao decided to roughly halve the weight of this kind of earth-shaking thunder, and designed it into a standard specification of 8 catties of pig iron shell and 6 catties of black powder inside, so that the weight of a single soldier earth-shaking thunder is almost the same as the weight of a standard men's shot put, because it can be thrown with a wooden handle in his hand, and the distance of a trained adult male can reach more than 20 meters on the ground.

Untrained ordinary men can also throw to about 15 meters, and the improved version of the individual soldier Earthquake Thunder with such a design, Li Xiao once used pigs to conduct field tests.

Seven or eight of these pigs, clad in leather and iron armor, were placed near and far, and all of them were tied on the spot with wooden poles to prevent escape.

Then, Li Xiao asked people to put the prepared individual earth-shaking thunder in the central field, light the fire rope, and test the explosion effect.

After a deafening explosion sounded, the scene was rained with earth and rocks. The scene taught all the people watching to be creepy, and the pigs that were close to each other were drenched in blood, bleeding from the seven orifices, and had already been shocked; Those who were a little farther away, dressed in armor, also drooped their heads, and their eyes were not alive with a snort; It is a pig half a foot away, and there are several blood holes on its body that have been cut out by the fragments of a single soldier's earth-shaking thunder, and the blood is flowing and screaming, although it can still live, it has obviously lost its ability to move.

It can be seen that the effective killing radius of this kind of individual earth-shaking thunder can reach about 5 meters, and the experimental effect is quite satisfactory.

So, Li Xiao gave this kind of improved and stereotyped version of the individual soldier earth-shaking thunder a more vivid name, hand-thrown thunder, which is the origin of the name of hand-thrown thunder.

The last time the hand-thrown mine was in a big swing, it was on Ocean Island. At that time, after the Qing army eliminated Dongjiang Town, it wanted to take advantage of the victory to attack Li Xiao's territory, so under the leadership of Ma Futa, the Qing army crossed the sea and attacked Jinghai Fort in a big way, but he did not expect that the defending general Jin Tongwu would throw a thunder with a single soldier and defeat the Qing army that landed on the island and attacked.

In the end, after Li Xiao led the reinforcements, Li Xiao's army attacked inside and outside, and the Qing army that attacked Ocean Island was all wiped out, and the main general Mafuta was attacked and killed by the deputy general Samushka, and his head was decapitated to Li Xiao as a vote, and at the same time, because of the victory in this battle, Li Xiao also successfully forced Shen Zhixiang, the former deputy commander of Dongjiang Town, to lead his troops anyway.

Although, later, because of the needs of the struggle, Li Xiao asked Shen Zhixiang and others to sneak back to the Qing court, lie about their achievements, and become an inside line that he planted in the Qing court, but Shen Zhixiang and others can obediently go anyway, from the root, this is really the credit of this thunder.

At this time, when all 1,000 auxiliary soldiers were ready, Li Dingguo's voice sounded loudly again.

"All the auxiliaries listen to my order, and after the commander gives the order, all the auxiliaries will throw thunder on the spot and give the enemy army who is climbing the city a head-on attack! Let these damned Tartars have a good taste of the power of our army's hand thunder. No one should attack without permission, do you understand? ”

"Got it!"

"Okay, light the torch!" When he saw the Qing army starting to climb the ladder, Li Dingguo shouted loudly. As soon as his words fell, the sound of the fuse burning sounded all around, and the auxiliaries used the fire rope to ignite the fuse of the single hand throwing thunder.

In the heavy snow, the fuse that Zizi lit was carefully covered by the auxiliary soldiers with their hands to avoid being extinguished by the snowflakes.

Soon, a large number of Qing troops began to climb up to the middle of the siege ladder.

"Cast!" With Li Dingguo's loud shout, the 1,000 auxiliary soldiers who had already been engrossed in waiting for the order immediately threw the hand-throwing thunder with the wooden handle soaked with sweat, and threw it out in a standard sideways throwing posture over the big shield in front of them towards the surging Qing army under the city.

"Bang 。。。。。。" Of the 1,000 hand-thrown grenades that were thrown, more than 850 hand-thrown grenades exploded smoothly.

Violent explosions rang out violently, and the blinding yellow flames stretched into a web of death, powerful shockwaves and screaming fragments, with a devastating and violent force, tearing all those or things who dared to stop them to pieces.

Looking down from the city wall, it can be clearly seen that those enemy Qing troops who entered the range of hand-thrown thunder attacks suddenly turned into a bloody rain of flesh and blood, and together with the slag fragments of those siege ladders and siege towers, they flew in all directions in the thick of choking smoke.

Such a dense explosion dealt a devastating blow to the Qing army under the city. Li Dingguo was pleased to see that although the explosion range of the dense single-handed thunder was much smaller than that of the large sky-shaking thunder, the damage caused to the enemy army in the case of intensive throwing was no worse than that of the large-scale earth-shaking thunder thrown by a trebuchet.

This wave of sudden attacks by the Tang army caught the Qing troops under the city, who were all in dense positions, off guard, and suffered heavy losses for a while.

At least more than 1,500 Qing soldiers were killed and wounded on the spot, and the wounded soldiers of the Qing army who were wounded but not killed were rolling and struggling under the city, and their miserable howls resounded in one place, making people's hearts palpitate.

At the same time, a total of about 16 siege ladders were blown up, and the Qing troops who climbed on the siege ladders were killed and wounded, and the vanguard attacking troops, which were originally high morale, suffered a great demoralization and suffered very heavy losses.

What made the Qing army even more depressed and angry was that when these auxiliaries threw hands and thunders, they hid behind the big shield and did not show up at all, so that those Qing archers who were originally in strict battle and prepared to shoot the Tang army as soon as they showed up could not provide a little cover for the Qing army besieging the city.

Under the sudden attack of the Tang army's auxiliaries, the remnants of more than ten Qing troops on the siege ladder were also frightened.

In such a close environment, they witnessed the terrifying power of the Tang army's hand-thrown thunder, and the shock in their hearts reached an irreparable level.

The Qing army, whose ears were deaf and bleeding from their mouths and noses by the powerful shock wave of the hand-thrown thunder, all had faces full of extreme fear, and they turned around and fled down the ladder one after another.

And when they fled down the ladder, the remaining Qing troops under the city had already smeared oil on the soles of their feet and retreated one after another.

Like a flood at low tide, they fled backwards without hesitation, until they had crossed the frozen moat and reached the back of the rows of carts, and the momentum of the rout stopped slightly.

At this time, on the wall of the West Gate, the cheers of the Tang army resounded again. Li Dingguo, who was standing at the head of the city, saw that the Qing army was defeated by his own hand thunder, and when he retreated in a hurry, how could he express the happiness in his heart.

"Well done, brothers, that's it, beat these damned tartars hard. Everyone, get ready, and the next time they attack, throw a thunderbolt at these bastards!

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"Order!

And at this moment, behind the Qing army's formation, seeing his own soldiers, who were quickly defeated by the Tang army's sudden hand-thrown thunder, and commanded the army to fight in the city, the Qing army Dolgon was so angry that he was almost angry.

"Hmph, useless things, cowards who eat dry rice, were blown up by the Tang Army! What is the use of raising you! Dorgon scolded bitterly.

At this time, Dodor also hurried over and came to Dorgon's side.

"Second brother, the Tang army has a heaven-shattering thunder to defend the city, and it is hiding behind the shield to sneak attack, if you want to attack, it is difficult!" Duoduo said with a worried expression.

Dorgon gave him a hateful look, gritted his teeth and replied, "So what! The eighth child gave me a death order, regardless of casualties, to take the city wall of the West Gate. This battle has just begun, how can you be discouraged? Dorgon was stunned for a moment, and immediately said to Dordor for a moment: "Dodor, you help the second brother, and when I order my troops to attack again, you let your troops collectively throw arrows to suppress those Tang troops and make it difficult for them to throw earth-shattering thunder." As long as our army can attack the city, second brother, I am sure that the Tang army will never be the opponent of our army in close combat. ”

"Second brother, don't worry, no problem." Duoduo promised loudly, but said with a hesitant face: "Second brother, even if our army can suppress the Tang army, there is also the danger that stray arrows will hit my Qing officers and soldiers, aren't you worried about this?"

Dolgon snorted coldly, a trace of hideousness flashed on his face, and he said sharply: "Duoduo, since ancient times, Ci has not been in charge of troops. If you are afraid of casualties among the soldiers, but you miss the opportunity to attack the city, then you really regret it!

After Dolgon finished speaking, he immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Pass my military order, the whole army will go out to attack the city again, and those who retreat from the battle will be killed!" The rumbling war drums and the piercing swan trumpets immediately rang out, and the reorganized Qing army began to bite the bullet, carrying the siege ladder and continuing the attack.

Now the Qing army is obedient, their formation is very loose, only the Qing army carrying the siege ladder is in the front, and the large army is far away from them to ensure that the damage is minimized.

They walked across the frozen moat in fear, but the Tang army guarding did not move, which greatly surprised the Qing army.

In fact, the reason why the Tang army did not throw hand-thrown mines for the time being was because of the limited number of Qing troops, and it would be a waste to throw hand-thrown mines intensively, so Li Dingguo decided to wait until the Qing army began to gather like ants under the siege ladder and kept climbing upwards, and then began to carry out the second round of hand-thrown thunder strikes against them.

Seeing that the Qing army was getting closer and closer, Li Dingguo's eyes began to show a sharp and ruthless light like a wolf.

"Brothers, take note, get ready, listen to my orders, and prepare to throw hand thunder again!

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"Order!

What Li Dingguo didn't expect was that the Qing army hesitated for a long time under the city, and finally leaned over in a loose formation, and then put as many as 40 siege ladders on the city wall, and then began to climb up one by one and began to siege the city. Seeing that the number of Qing troops coming was much less than before, Li Dingguo was a little disappointed, but he immediately thought soberly that he must blow up all these siege ladders, otherwise, if the Qing army climbed to the top of the city, this battle would become unprecedentedly fierce. Unexpectedly, before Li Xiao could shout out the ignition, he was shocked to see that the Qing army archers, who had nothing to do, began to throw a large number of arrows at the entire city wall. Although most of the arrows were blocked by the big shield, they also caused great pressure on the Tang army, and immediately more than 100 auxiliaries were killed or wounded, and more than a dozen auxiliaries who were injured by arrows fell from the city wall with screams and fell into meatloaf. For a while, under the arrows of the Qing army that came like rain, it was difficult for Li Dingguo's auxiliaries to even raise their heads, and they didn't even think about how to counterattack the Qing army besieging the city. Seeing that his subordinates were suppressed again, Li Dingguo was filled with anger, and his teeth were gritted loudly. Li Dingguo began to regret that he had let these Qing troops go and let them smoothly build the siege ladder against the wall of the west gate of Shanghai Senwei. However, he was worthy of being a well-known general, and seeing that this situation was not right, he did not linger in his frustration for long, but immediately ordered all the auxiliaries to be removed from the wall, leaving only the armoured and better equipped spearmen and rampers to continue to guard the western wall. Li Dingguo knew that the brutal battle for the city wall would inevitably begin in the end. The Qing army soon followed the siege ladder and climbed to the top of the city. It's just that at this time, the Tang army was ready to counterattack and fight. Looking down from the sky, you can see that one by one the Tartars jumped from the head of the siege ladder with a shout, but they were immediately sandwiched between several large shields surrounded by a semi-arc, and before they could gain a firm foothold, behind each shield, several fierce spears attacked from different directions at once, and the heads, chests, or necks of these Tartars were immediately stabbed by deadly spears, sending these Tartars who had not had time to react to hell in an instant. On the edge of the wall, which had not yet been built, a line was quickly filled in by the corpses of the Tartars.

"Kill the Tartars, make a meritorious name!"

"Kill the Tartars, go to heaven!" In the frantic battle, the roars of the Tang soldiers, accompanied by the screams of the Tartars, pierced through the heavy snow and soared into the sky.

It's just that, as time goes by, more and more Tartars begin to jump down from the city walls, especially those who climb up with white armor, because they are well protected by wearing three layers of armor and have heavy weapons in their hands, as soon as they enter the wall, they immediately slash and kill.

With these powerful white-armored charging formations, the semi-arc spear and shield battle array, which was originally closely surrounded, was constantly broken away and deformed, and for a while, among the shield soldiers and spearmen of the Tang Army, some people fell down screaming from time to time.

However, as soon as there were casualties among the soldiers, new shield soldiers and spearmen immediately made up for them. At the same time, the 2,000-man rampant general soldiers guarding both sides of the gun and shield battle array finally ushered in the opportunity to show their skills at this time.

"Brothers, meritorious service is today!" Ren An, the general manager of the rampant, pulled a spear flower with the tiger gun in his hand, and took the lead in killing the Tartar who rushed to the wall.

The mecha monster-like rampant team, dressed in triple armor, like a miniature tank, and the heavy tiger knives, tiger spears, long-handled knives, thick-backed scythes and other heavy weapons in everyone's hands, all fought hard to slash at the Tartar soldiers who were not on their feet.

Wherever the sharp sword light went, there were corpses and flesh and blood. The western walls of Vladivostok Fort have finally been completely transformed into a flesh mill.

The corpses of countless Tartars and the corpses of the dead Tang Army were mixed with each other, lying on the ground horizontally, and the blood of these enemies who fought to the death before their deaths finally flowed together.

The rammed earth surface of the city wall, which had not yet been built, had become extremely viscous because of the overlapping flow of blood, and it was wet and slippery when stepped on, making it difficult to stand firmly.

Who is nobler and more despicable than the other among these piles of corpses? The upper frontier field bent each other's bows and moons, flowing all over, and the blood of the suburbs was ......

"Why did you kill me? Because you live on the other side of the river. Why are you killing me? Because you speak a different language than we do. - French historian Zickego.

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