Chapter 66: Xinyang City II

"You can't fool the city." Zhou Fuming said: "After a while, when they shoot arrows downward, they desperately push the cart in front of the city gate, and then light the fire. You know? ”

"Dalang. It's easy, but can this gunpowder really blow open the gates? This is the old man of the Zhou family asked.

"Yes, as long as there is no earth and stone in it." Zhou Fuming.

At this moment, Zhou Fuming's heart was full of mixed tastes, and he couldn't know how to understand.

Zhou Fuming has always thought that he was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, even if he joined the thief camp, it was also for the purpose of one day, to take refuge in the imperial court, and the thief camp was just a temporary shelter, but the death of his father suddenly broke all of Zhou Fuming's thoughts.

His father and son of the Zhou family risked their lives to report to the officials and soldiers, but his father's head became a tool for the court generals to bargain with the thieves, and he claimed to be a loyal minister and filial son, but in order to avenge his father, he came to attack the city of the imperial court.

The contradictions stimulated Zhou Fuming, giving him a feeling that it was better to die.

"Zhou Fuming, don't think about anything now, after avenging your father, you will take your younger brother to live in the mountains, this pool of muddy water in the world, my Zhou family will not serve." Zhou Fuming thought secretly in his heart.

Above the city. Officers are also distributing tasks.

"All the archers hid behind the women's wall, and when I gave the order, they all came out and shot. Even the rolling stones and sassalwood, ten thousand enemies, are ready, and after a rain of arrows, an ancient brain will serve them. The officer said: "Your people, all hide behind the city gate, and as soon as the sound of explosions outside stops, immediately open the city gate and rush out, kill for a while, remember, just kill for a while, don't run far, kill the people at the city gate, and all of them will be withdrawn." Remember not to run far and beware of ambushes. ”

"Understood." The crowd replied in unison.

Zhang Xuan was near the third gunpowder car, holding the handle of the knife with his hand, looking left and right, all the soldiers were like earth, and even a few people were trembling, which did not blame them, most of them were not yet eighteen years old, and they had not been trained in how to fight, Zhang Xuan took them out, but he wanted to give them a bite to eat, but he never thought of taking them to the battlefield.

Zhang Xuan sympathized with them, but sympathy could not be eaten.

Zhang Xuan called Cao Zongyu and said, "Wait a while, you are behind, and anyone who retreats will be killed, including me." Zhang Xuan suddenly leaned into Cao Zongyu's ear and said: "Brother Cao, if the plan doesn't go well and you can't blow up the city gate, you can escape, sister-in-law has Luo Yujiao to take care of, if it's okay, let's protect yourself first." ”

Cao Zongyu was shocked and said, "Obey." ”

He pulled at the back of the convoy.

Zhang Xuan silently calculated the distance, and there was an abnormal silence at the head of the city and under the city.

"One hundred steps." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.

"Eighty steps." It was not only Zhang Xuan who was secretly calculating the distance between the two sides, but also the officers at the head of the city.

"Fifty steps." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "It's almost time to rush." ”

He never hoped that the people in the city would not find out that he was an impostor. Fifty steps of people pushing the gunpowder cart is only a moment's work, plus it is the peaceful season under his feet, and the road from Xinyang City to the Shihe Wharf is very well repaired. There are no obstacles. I rushed over in one go.

"Forty steps." The officers at the head of the city slowly raised their hands, and the soldiers behind the female wall began to bend their bows and arrows.

The unexpected, though, happened.

A soldier didn't seem to shoot for a long time, didn't hold it, and shot an arrow, the arrow was very soft, and fell directly on the ground, but this arrow caused a chain reaction, and all the soldiers waiting for the order thought that the order had been given, and suddenly a rain of arrows shot down.

"Rush." Zhang Xuan saw the archery at the head of the city, shouted loudly, and slammed into the gunpowder cart, more than a dozen pushed the gunpowder cart, and the gunpowder cart suddenly had a feeling of walking like flying.

"Ahh A soldier who was pushing a cart was shot in the neck by an arrow, screamed, and fell to the ground, Zhang Xuan could only not see it.

Suddenly, there was another scream, the wheel seemed to be pressing something, Zhang Xuan rushed over only to find that the wheel was pressed against the soldier's neck, and there was only a blood mark on his head, and I don't know if it was connected.

Zhang Xuan didn't care about this, he just rushed forward with his stuffy head, only to hear that countless stones fell down, and one piece smashed heavily on the cart pushed by Zhang Xuan, smashed on the box containing gunpowder, bounced up from the box, crossed Zhang Xuan's head, and smashed on the ground.

If Zhang Xuan raised his head just now, it is estimated that he only has half a life now.

The sound of an explosion suddenly spread, but it was a 10,000-strong enemy exploding under the city, for a while Zhang Xuan didn't know how many people died, all he knew was that there was no other sound in his ears, there was just a scream.

After this explosion, there was another explosion, and the sound of this explosion was even louder, Zhang Xuan only felt a heat wave rushing towards him, and he even smelled the smell of burnt hair.

"Have the gates been blown open?" Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, but when he looked up, he found that this was not the case, it was just 10,000 enemies who had ignited the gunpowder on the first gunpowder truck, and the explosion at a distance overturned all the dozens of soldiers near the first gunpowder car.

"The strength of a hundred households is gone." Zhang Xuan was suddenly shocked in his heart. But the thought came to him in a flash. He wasn't worried about how many people he had died, but how many people would be left.

Zhang Xuan didn't think that the soldiers he had only trained for less than a month would fight desperately for him with a few threats, as well as the overseers behind him, and he obviously saw that all the soldiers were stunned. If he didn't raise his morale quickly, it was only natural that all his men would collapse.

"Kill." Zhang Xuan shouted loudly, put down the third gunpowder cart and rushed over, and pounced on the second gunpowder cart, and he was about to rush when he pushed the cart alone, but the gunpowder weighing hundreds of catties was not so easy to push.

"Rush." Zhou Fuming pounced.

They led several soldiers and rushed forward. The powder cart accelerated towards the city gate again.

"Is it gunpowder?"

The officers at the head of the city were taken aback.

Look at this sound, look at this weight, if you say that it is good, it will be a few hundred catties of gunpowder. And although the city gate is strong, but in essence it is just an inch thick of hardwood, which can block bows and arrows, battering rams, but can it block gunpowder, he really has no bottom in his heart, even if the city gate can block it, the bolt behind the city gate, the connection between the city gate and the wall, can it also be blocked?

If it was only the city gate, he could hide many people in the cave of the city gate waiting to be killed. As soon as this gunpowder explodes, what will happen to the people in the cave of the city gate?

As soon as he thought of this, his face turned white and he said, "Put rockets and shoot those big cars." While commanding the archers, he grabbed a herald and said in a loud voice, "Go down quickly, let all the people in the cave of the city gate come out, quickly." ”

"Yes, yes." A herald hurriedly agreed, and ran down the city with a smoke.

But it will also take some time to switch from ordinary arrows to rockets. It also took some time to get from the castle tower to the city gate, so the officer's order was too late.

At this time, the gunpowder cart pushed by Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fuming had already hit the city gate hard.

Zhang Xuan pulled out the long fuse. A large number of more than ten meters far away, took out the fire fold, blew it hard, and bright red flames came out of the fire fold.

"Collapse, collapse, collapse." The distance of more than a dozen steps was exactly within the range of the bow and arrow, and it was the best range, so more than a dozen long arrows shot towards Zhang Xuan, most of them were shot on the ground, and one was shot heavily on Zhang Xuan's heart guard, and Zhang Xuan felt as if someone had smashed Zhang Xuan with a wooden stick, making him breathless for a while.

"Snort." The fuse was finally lit.

This fuse is the usual thin cotton rope with sulfur saltpeter and other flammable products, and once ignited, a fire head was seen quickly heading towards the gunpowder cart.

Zhang Xuan immediately ran backwards, and countless arrows behind him nailed a piece of ground in the ground.

In a moment, the line of fire penetrated deep into the box containing gunpowder, and Zhang Xuan suddenly felt that there was silence between heaven and earth.