Midnight.

Ma Jinzhong stood in the crowded and narrow trench, raised his head and looked up at the sky, above his head the thunderous cannon sound continued to sound, the fierce whistling of the cannonballs almost never stopped, and the fire of the cannon muzzle made the whole trench uncertain......

"Spirited!"

He kicked a dozing man.

The latter quickly opened his eyes, and then looked at the top of his head in the same way.

At this moment, in this trench with no end in sight on either side, there are countless waiting soldiers, all like them, looking at the sky above them, and the earth stirred up by cannonballs is constantly falling.

This is the forefront of the whole trench attack system, in fact, thirty zhang away from them is Hengshan Fort, behind them a zigzag trench, starting from three miles away and extending here, and then turning into an arc-shaped trench almost parallel to Hengshan Fort, about half a mile long, he and a whole battalion of companions are waiting here as the main attack.

And in the back there was a whole brigade, crowded in the trenches that stretched backwards.

Everyone is waiting.

Wait for the moment when Yokoyama Fort is blasted open.

Ma Jinzhong stepped on the dirt steps dug in front of him and quietly poked his head out, looking at the fortress in front of him, which had already withstood thousands of eighteen-pound heavy artillery shells......

Its true face can be clearly seen in the light of the cannon fire on the bastion.

In fact, it is not a perfect bastion.

After all, it was built on a hill, in fact, it was to bulldoze the surrounding trees on the hill, and then build a four-corner fort with rammed earth and logs, and even stones, without a triangular fort, without a berm, and likewise without a peripheral trench.

It doesn't need any of that in the mountains either.

But because of the mountainous terrain, it is actually a two-story fortress, the heavy artillery is on the second floor, on the sunken open-air gun emplacement, and the light artillery is on the first floor, and the first layer is supported by logs to dig out a bunker, and the cannon can be pushed out and fired through the tunnel inside at any time. Even the defenders were all hidden in underground tunnels, and there were almost no exposed buildings inside the fort, everything was underground, to be precise, with logs and masonry supporting passages and piling up earth outside.

The cannon is inside the fort, and the soldiers are hiding in the tunnels waiting for them, with exits on them, and once the attackers from the outside arrive, the soldiers will appear on it as fast as they can and throw grenades.

There are also grenades in the group exercises.

They even use a lot of 10,000 enemies!

Absolutely easy to defend and hard to attack.

The attackers outside could not even see anything but the muzzles, and even the firing ports at the top of the bastions for the musketeers were protected by logs and earth.

But......

No matter how perfect the design is, it is also scum under the violent hard smash, at this moment under the eighteen-pound heavy artillery shells, the entire fortress has been unrecognizable, and it is impossible to distinguish between the first and second floors in the concentrated bombardment, and the collapsed soil creates a slope, so that there is an extra passage between the first and second layers.

But the first floor is still standing tenaciously.

Although it also collapsed in large areas, in the final analysis, it was earth, and even the soil could not support the little bit of this heavy artillery, and in front of the high-speed impact shells, nothing could always stand, and even if it still stood, it was only because there were not enough shells, and the shells were not big enough. Eighteen catties need to be gnawed hard, and the sixty-eight catties are estimated to have to go down half of the side with one shot, and the thick soil layer has already collapsed in large areas under the continuous bombardment.

"Hungry cannons!"

Ma Jinzhong said with satisfaction.

Then he looked at the weapon in his hand with dissatisfaction.

Almost at the same time, a ferocious whistling grieved over his head.

Directly in front of him, a large piece of the collapsed Hengshan Fort was splashed with mud, as if the entire city wall shook with it, and the next moment it was like a mountain that collapsed during a mudslide, and the city wall several zhang wide collapsed with a bang. Even the tunnels inside that were originally protected by the dirt were revealed, and they also collapsed, and several figures who were originally carrying powder kegs disappeared into the dirt in a flash, and their screams were buried as soon as they sounded......

"It's open, ready to rush!"

Ma Jinzhong roared in surprise.

In the trenches, the soldiers of his team stepped on the steps and prepared to rush out, and at this moment, the horn of attack sounded not far away.

"Kill!"

He was the first to burst out of the trench.

He didn't even care if there were any companions behind him, he carried the specially-shaped weapon in his hand, spread his legs and galloped forward like crazy, and before the guns of the defenders on either side could be aimed at this side, he had already crashed into the dust that had not yet dispersed like a wild horse. But he rushed too quickly, and at this time the dust and smoke were thick, and it was still night, and he could not see anything in his eyes immediately after rushing into the dust, so he had to rely only on the feeling under his feet, and began to climb upwards desperately.

Cannon fire rang out overhead.

The shouts of killing behind him also sounded like a tsunami.

The general offensive began.

At this time, he didn't care about anything, just desperately climbed upward, because the ground under his feet was soft and steep, his climbing was very difficult, and soon he couldn't climb, so he had to stand there and try to see the surroundings, but he still couldn't see anything, not even whether there was anyone behind him, the only thing he could know was that the shouts of killing behind him were getting closer and closer.

"Mah, it's not good to run too fast!"

He muttered to himself melancholy.

Suddenly there was a chaotic shout on the right, and it was supposed that the defenders had come out of the tunnel.

He immediately went to the right.

As soon as he took a few steps, his feet were empty, and the whole person fell to a relatively flat ground at once, and he immediately got up, and at this time, not only the sound of talking on the right side, but even the sound of musket shooting came intensively, and the sound of explosions sounded below. And at the same time, the fire on the right side of the air above his head suddenly flashed, and the huge cannon sound was deafening, it was obvious that it was a cannon on the second floor. He immediately pulled out a grenade from his waist pocket, and shoved the fuse upwards into his weapon......

It's a revolver.

But the difference is that the barrel resembles a short and thick cup.

And the grenade is right in the cup.

This is the so-called musket grenade, the prototype of the modern grenade, in fact, there is not only this in European siege weapons, even the incendiary grenades fired by muskets, using heavy arquebuses to fire arrows with oil bags, and there are poisonous things stuffed in them to create poisonous smoke. It is said that the Europeans tried their best to conquer the fortress, and some people even attacked the back of the fortress near the coast, dragged a battleship through the wooden track to the opposite side of the fortress and then bombarded it, and their brains were also very big.

And all their valuable experience was brought by Yang Dudu.

Ma Jinzhong immediately took out the fire fold and blew the fuse that quickly ignited the grenade, and then completely resigned himself to raising his gun to aim at the position just now, he actually couldn't be sure at all, but anyway, it was Meng, he just knew the exact location and left it to fate. This ghost thing has no precision at all, and it is all up to faith where it hits, and the possibility of falling on his head is not impossible, so in the end, he gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger, and with the sound of gunfire, the grenade flew out and disappeared into the dust with the fuse burning spark.

He waited nervously.

However, the explosion of the grenade did not sound, but the screams in front of him rang out, and it was clear that the gunfire had alarmed the defenders there, and several looming figures appeared in his field of vision.

Without hesitation, he drew his knife

But the next moment, the sound of an explosion above his head suddenly sounded, as if he had just shot not a small grenade, but a powder magazine, and this huge explosion made the whole world in front of him red. Then a furious wave of air tossed him straight away, and he instinctively screamed in mid-air, flying out with the defenders who were ready to attack him......

And then he didn't know anything.

"What's going on?"

At this moment, Yang Dudu, who was watching the battle from a distance, looked at the mushroom cloud rising from Hengshan Fort in amazement.

The sudden huge explosion completely blew up the entire edge and corner of the heavy fort on the second floor of this fortress, and even the first batch of Dangkou troops who rushed up were devastated, and were directly swept down by the explosion waves. The earth stirred up by the explosion rose into the sky as if it had been thrown into the sky, and then splashed down in all directions, whether it was attacking below or blocking on the first layer of fortresses, all of them were smashed into chaos.

"The powder magazine exploded!"

Sun Yingyuan, who was commanding the battle beside him, said.

"Their heavy artillery is an open-air gun emplacement, and such a battle must have piled up a lot of gunpowder nearby, which should have been detonated by something."

He went on to say.

This explanation is very reasonable, such an explosion can only be an explosion of a powder magazine, but the gunpowder in the fortress is all underground, and it is always used, in fact, if it is on flat ground, this gunpowder will be stored in the lowest cellar. However, this is on the mountain, and the rock is below, and it is difficult to dig out the cellar, only in the soil layer of the fortress, and even then it is not easy to be accidentally detonated, but this is the only explanation for this situation.

"Keep attacking, attack on all fronts, and take advantage of his illness to kill him!"

Yang Xin said.

At this time, of course, it is necessary to attack on all fronts.

In fact, even if the fortress was destroyed, it would not be easy for the defenders to resist resolutely, but the explosion helped a lot, as the defenders who had just emerged from the inside of the fortress were almost completely covered in the earth and masonry of the first layer of the fortress.

"The enemy is starting to flee!"

Suddenly, Yang Huan on the other side shouted in surprise.

Yang Xin and Sun Yingyuan immediately turned their binoculars in the direction he was looking, and then they saw a large number of defenders swarming out from the right side of the fortress under the moonlight and firelight......

The defenders of Yokoyama Fort broke and fled.

They were able to hold out until this time was already considered heroic, the unexpected explosion just now made them completely lose the courage to resist, and in the face of the swarming Bandit army, the more than 1,000 soldiers guarding the fortress finally chose to flee. As they fled, the attacking Bandits swarmed onto the fortress, which changed hands after only half an hour.

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