Bite!

The crisp sound of metal smashing against the bluestone, in the darkness, seemed extremely crisp and harsh, and the soldiers who were digging the tunnel touched it with their hands, and after deducting the mud, the stone city wall was exposed, and the city wall with pieces of granite was piled up in front of their eyes.

"It's done, it's ......"

In the muddy and waterlogged tunnels, the soldiers covered in mud immediately shouted excitedly, but as soon as they shouted, they quickly stopped the sound, who knows, there must be someone behind the city wall holding the water tank upside down to listen to the movement underground.

Although in the past month, under the cover of the onslaught, almost no one has noticed the excavation in several directions, it is certainly impossible to say that the gods are unaware, so try to be careful.

"Dig horizontally on both sides, one at a time."

With an order, the soldiers in the tunnel were busy again, and now they seemed to be faster than before, perhaps because they saw hope.

"Dig through! Dig through! ”

After a few days, several soldiers in a tunnel that was not more than a foot deep into the city wall, they excitedly touched the huge bluestone above their heads, the face full of mud was full of excitement, the huge stone used to build the foundation of the city wall was half a zhang wide, it was this huge stone that made them not need to build beams at all, thus making them much faster.

"Quick, hurry up and inform the general! Dig to the root of the wall! ”

In the tunnel, the soldiers who had long since become mud monkeys said to the people behind them one by one, and the news spread very quickly.

"Good! Well done! When the city is broken, each person will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver! ”

After hearing the report from the front, Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered excitedly.

"Order the Iron Man Army to ...... No, dispatch the Chinese army, after the city wall is blasted open, with the Chinese army as the vanguard, conquer Fuzhou, but no one will be left behind who wears armor and holds a fight! ”

Zheng Chenggong's face was pale, and there was no pity in his tone, the 70,000 Qing troops in this city had blocked him for more than a month, if they were still kept like this, how could the next Qing army surrender immediately.

"Tell the brethren that after the city is broken, each of them will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!"

Immediately after the general's order, Zhou Yangye shouted loudly to let the brothers know the good news, and at the same time he entered another room, where the soldiers were stuffing a solid powder bag into a log.

"General, the key to this artillery is to tamp the gunpowder, if the gunpowder is not tamped, it will naturally not be blown up, our family has been doing artillery battles for generations, this is to put it bluntly, the gunpowder used in the city is a large artillery battle, as long as the medicine is fully loaded and tamped, it will definitely not run into fire, and when the time comes, as long as it is blown up, it will definitely be able to blow up half of the city wall of Fuzhou City to the sky......

As soon as Xu Li'an saw that the ginseng was coming, he immediately said with a happy face.

"It's just that this wooden tube is filled with tung oil inside and out, so as to prevent the gunpowder from getting damp, after all, this tunnel is full of water ......."

After Mao Sui recommended himself last time, Xu Li'an began to prepare for this "cannon battle" with others, first hollowing out the thick wood held by these people, and then stuffing a thousand catties of gunpowder into it, which he did according to the family tradition.

"As long as you can blast this wall open, when the time comes, Zhou will personally ask the general to attack for you!"

Six "cannons", a full 6,000 catties of gunpowder, once it explodes, even if the city of Fuzhou is beaten with iron, it can be blasted open!

"General, you just don't worry, King Huai used this trick to blast Jiangyin away, and we can use tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder today."

Xu Li'an is not exaggerating, in addition to the six tunnels dug out every other zhang under the city wall, the horizontal passages connecting the six tunnels are also stuffed with gunpowder, as long as a little fire, tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder under the city wall and the root of the city wall, the wall is blown up, and the wall is piled in, even if the Fuzhou city wall is completely made of stones, how can it block such an explosion.

"Whether we can attack Fuzhou City or not depends on your kid!"

The use of gunpowder to collapse the city wall is nothing new, they have also collapsed, but not every time it can explode, several times only large earth flowers are released, and even the smoke and fire from the mouth of the tunnel can be seen every few miles.

However, this time, Xu Li'an felt that he had done enough work, and he could naturally blast this Fuzhou City away at once.

Another night, Cai Erxi still hasn't slept, when he opens his eyes and occasionally sees those soldiers, he always thinks of these people as man-eating devils in his mind, especially when they are there to compare whose bowl has more meat, and it is a pity that there is less meat, in his eyes, these people are no different from devils.

"God has eyes, and he will bless the country surname to break the city as soon as possible......"

Whether as a student of Huang Daozhou or as a native of Fuzhou, Cai Erxi hopes that the Ming army can immediately break the city, not only because he promises to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but more importantly, if it drags on for half a year, even if the city is broken, the people of this city may have already become the meat in the mouth of the Qing army.

"Scholar, you read a lot of books, you say, if we regrow hair in the future, how long will it take to grow hair?"

Sitting in the courtyard, Wu Lao Liu looked at Cai Erxi with a somewhat confused look and continued.

"When I was sixteen years old, the Qing soldiers came, and they shaved their heads, at that time, Li Shusheng's family at the head of the village all voted for Liang, at that time, I don't know how many people didn't want to shave their heads and died, but ......"

The voice became muffled, and then Wu Lao Liu said again.

"Timid, the whole family shaved their heads, but, but ......"

In the end, Wu Lao Liu sighed again.

"You say, how long does it take to grow hair? I don't want to, I don't want to die, and my ancestors don't recognize us. ”

Just as he finished speaking, a loud muffled sound suddenly came from a distance, and at the same time the ground under his feet shook, as if he were on a boat.

Before Cai Erxi could figure out what was going on, the direction of the north of the city was shrouded in smoke clouds, and the choking smoke instantly shrouded the courtyard, and what was even more terrifying was that there were thousands of stone building stones that collapsed in the direction of the city, and even half-human-sized stone bars were flying in the air, and the courtyard near the city wall that was originally used to garrison soldiers was completely swallowed up by earth and stone, and thousands of Qing troops, even when they were asleep, were pressed under thousands of tons of earth and stone.

Even Xu Li'an himself did not expect that under the impetus of thousands of catties of gunpowder, the city wall that should have been blown down, while being lifted up by the violent explosion, collapsed towards the city, and even the city wall that was dozens of zhang wide and should have been shattered was "flew" to the city for more than ten zhang, and in the process of "flying", thousands of tons of bricks and stones smashed under the city wall, and the courtyards of the soldiers were buried alive under the rubble.

For the people in the city, the earth in the north of the city shook for a moment, and even made them wonder if the earth dragon had turned over, and even Geng Jimao, who was accustomed to seeing the world, thought that it was the earth dragon that had turned over, and he instinctively pushed away the people who had just been snatched from him, and then rushed out of the house naked, and when he looked up and saw the smoke in the north of the city, he realized what was happening.

"Quick, quick, prepare armor for this king, go to the north of the city, and transfer the elephant team to the north of the city......"

Geng Jimao, who was naked, seemed more nervous than others, he knew how Zheng Chenggong would deal with him after the city was broken, and whether the Geng family had more than 100 people, whether they could survive today or not was all about whether they could defend the city.

At this moment, I saw a teenager rushing over with a knife.

"Dad, Dad, the wall must be broken......"

Geng Jingzhong shouted as he ran.

"The child personally led the troops over, and he didn't work for his father's ......"

Without waiting for Geng Jingzhong to finish speaking, Geng Jimao stepped away from him and scolded.

"You kid knows a fart!"

The reason why he scolded his son like this was because this kid had never been in a military battle at all, so he naturally didn't know how to march and fight.

"You kid follow me, learn a little on the side, and the Geng family will be all directed at you in the future!"

Geng Jingzhong, who was kicked by his father, dared to contradict his father, he watched his father give orders there when he was wearing armor.

"Transfer the elephant team over, Zheng thief will definitely go to the Iron Man Army, today Lao Tzu has to take a look, is he Zheng Chenggong's Iron Man Army powerful, or Lao Tzu's war elephant is powerful......"

Geng Jimao said inwardly.

Although he has not touched the Iron Man Army, but Geng Jimao has heard of the Iron Man Army, the battle of Zhenjiang, the Iron Man Army 5,000 to 20,000 Eight Banner Foot Cavalry, but only a few thousand steps have survived and fled the battlefield, since then the Iron Man Army has become famous all over the world, the Iron Man Army has been transmitted to Guangdong, no one in the world knows, and even in the Battle of Suqian Zhu Mingzhong also relied on the hasty Iron Man Army to defeat Dasu.

How powerful the Iron Man Army is, Geng Jimao does not know, but he knows very well the power of war elephants, Li Dingguo was rampage with a few war elephants, and it is precisely because of this that Geng Jimao bought more than a dozen elephants and elephant slaves from Siam at a high price, and then practiced them, as a killer weapon in his hands, this time it was brought from Guangdong to Fujian, and even before the palace was repaired, an elephant garden was built in the city.

"Dad, don't worry, according to the child, the Iron Man Army, that is, a name, what Manchurian Eight Banners Force, I don't know when his mother is the old Huang Li,"

Geng Jingzhong shouted, his tone was full of disdain for those Eight Banner soldiers, no wonder, in the past ten years, the Great Qing Kingdom has relied on their Han army banner to fight the world, as for the Manchurian soldiers, they have long lost their courage yesterday, and even in Geng Jingzhong's opinion, those Manchurians are just a group of wine bags and rice bags, in addition to eating, drinking and having fun, what else can they point to them.

"You kid knows a fart!"

scolded his son again, Geng Jimao, who was wearing armor, had already stepped on the backs of the soldiers, then jumped on the horse, and led more than 1,000 Ding horses to the north of the city.